Animal Groups in Three Dimensions
Subtitle: How Species Aggregate
Contributors: Julia K. Parrish (Editor); William M. Hamner (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521460248
Subjects: Animal behaviour; Animal ecology; Applied mathematics; Science; Animal Behavior (Ethology); Nature/Ecology; Stereoscopic views; Applied; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Science / Biology; Animal societies
First sentence: An aggregation of anything against a background of sameness captures our eye.
Description: This book is about the ways in which many animals form groups, for instance, schools of fish, flock-of birds, and swarms of insects. Covering both invertebrate and vertebrate species, the authors investigate three-dimensional animal aggregations from a variety of disciplines, from physics to mathematics to biology. Researchers interested in behavioral ecology or modeling biological systems would benefit from reading this book.