Animal behavior

by Rubenstein, Dustin R.

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Title Statements

Full title :Animal behavior / Dustin R. Rubenstein, John Alcock.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019
Edition:Eleventh edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

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The Physical Object

Description:xxi, 548 pages, 94 variously numbered pages : : illustrations (some color), color maps ; : 28 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781605355481, 1605355488, 9781605358949, 1605358940
oclc:on1053865475
LC Classification:QL751
Dewey Decimal:591.5

Machine generated contents note: Natural Selection and the Evolution of Behavior -- The Cost-Benefit Approach to Behavioral Biology -- The Levels of Analysis -- Box 1.1: Natural selection and infanticide in primates -- The Integrative Study of Animal Behavior -- Approaches to Studying Behavior -- The Adaptive Basis of Behavior: Mobbing in Gulls -- Box 1.2: Phylogenies and the comparative method -- Box 1.3: The benefit of high nest density for the arctic skua -- The Science of Animal Behavior -- The Development of Song Learning -- Box 2.1: Characterizing sounds made by animals -- Intraspecific Variation and Dialects -- Social Experience and Song Development -- Mechanisms of Song Learning -- Box 2.2: Song learning in birds adopted by another species -- The Genetics of Song Learning -- Control of the Avian Song System -- Box 2.3: Proximate mechanisms underlying song preferences in females -- The Evolution of Song Learning -- An Evolutionary History of Bird Song -- Mechanisms of Song Learning and the Comparative Approach -- Human versus Avian Vocal Learning -- The Adaptive Value of Song Learning -- Box 2.4: Why might song learning make males communicate more effectively with rivals or…