Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals

The last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal phenomena, including collective behaviour and social networks. In 'Animal Social Behaviour', authors Ashley Ward and Michael Webster integrate the most up-to-date empirical and theoretical research to provide a new synthesis of the field, which is aimed at fellow researchers and postgraduate students on the topic.

List of contents

Part 1 What is Sociality?.- Part 2 How Do Animals Group?.- Part 3 Why Do Animals Group?.- Part 4 How does animal social behaviour fit in an evolutionary context?.

About the author

Dr. Ashley Ward, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia. 
Dr. Mike Webster, Lecturer, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK.

Summary

The last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal phenomena, including collective behaviour and social networks. In ‘Animal Social Behaviour’, authors Ashley Ward and Michael Webster integrate the most up-to-date empirical and theoretical research to provide a new synthesis of the field, which is aimed at fellow researchers and postgraduate students on the topic.

Product details

• Authors: Ashle Ward, Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319285832
• ISBN: 978-3-31-928583-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 245 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 602 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 276 p. 47 illus., 19 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; B, Zoologie und Tierwissenschaften, Zoology & animal sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Zoology, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Behavioral Genetics