Advances in the Study of Behavior
Contributors: Rosenblatt, Jay S.; Snowdon, Charles T.; Roper, Timothy J.; Naguib, Marc
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780080490144
Description: The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior remains as it has been since the series began: to serve the increasing number of scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behavior by presenting their theoretical ideas and research to their colleagues and to those in neighboring fields. We hope that the series will continue its "contribution to the development of the field", as its intended role was phrased in the Preface to the first volume in 1965. Since that time, traditional areas of animal behavior have achieved new vigor by the links they have formed with related fields and by the cl.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Advances in The Study of Behavior; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Teamwork in Animals, Robots, and Humans; Chapter 2. The ''Mute'' Sex Revisited: Vocal Production and Perception Learning in Female Songbirds; Chapter 3. Selection in Relation to Sex in Primates; Chapter 4. Genetic Basis and Evolutionary Aspects of Bird Migration; Chapter 5. Vocal Communication and Reproduction in Deer; Chapter 6. Referential Signalling in Non-Human Primates: Cognitive Precursors and Limitations for the Evolution of Language.