Advances in the Study of Behavior
Contributors: Rosenblatt, Jay S.; Snowdon, Charles T.
Series: Advances in the Study of Behaviour S., v. 31; Advances in the Study of Behaviour S., v. 31
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780080493404
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. Conflict and Cooperation in a Female-Dominated Society: A Reassessment of the "Hyperaggressive" Image of Spotted Hyenas; Chapter 2. Birdsong and Male-Male Competition: Causes and Consequences of Vocal Variability in the Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto); Chapter 3. Imitation of Novel Complex Actions: What Does the Evidence from Animals Mean?; Chapter 4. Lateralization in Vertebrates: Its Early Evolution, General Pattern, and Development.