Animal behaviour: an evolutionary perspective

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"This textbook presents all basic principles of animal behaviour in a clear and concise manner and illustrates them with up-to-date examples. Emphasis is placed on behavioural biology as an integrative discipline of organismic biology, focusing on the adaptive value of behaviours that facilitate resource access, predator avoidance and reproductive success and underlie parental care, all within a comprehensive presentation of social complexity. This new textbook provides a rich resource for stud…

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Full title :Animal behaviour : an evolutionary perspective / Peter M. Kappeler.

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Publication Date:©2021
Edition:[Fifth edition]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

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Description:ix, 410 pages : : illustrations (some colour) ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030828783, 3030828786
oclc:on1295102337
LC Classification:QL751
Dewey Decimal:591.5

I. Basics. 1. Behavioral biology: content and history -- 2. Methods and concepts of behavioral biology -- 3. Behavior, evolution and life histories -- II. Survival strategies. 4. Basic function and behavior -- 5. Orientation in time and space -- 6. Habitat and food selection -- 7. Predation -- III. Reproduction. 8. Sexual selection: evolutionary foundations -- 9. Intrasexual selection: how males compete -- 10. Intersexual selection: how females choose -- IV. Parental care and infant development. 11. Parental care -- 12. Development and control of behaviour -- V. Social evolution. 13. Social systems -- 14. Social structure -- Subject index -- Animal index.