Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Animals - From Ants to Zebras

Brings together material that aggregates studies conducted on the behavior of tropical animals.

List of contents

1 - Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection in the Goodeinae, a Clade of Viviparous Fish with Effective Female Mate Choice
Constantino Macías Garcia and Alejandra Valero
2 - A Spatial Dance to the Music of Time in the Leks of Long-tailed Manakins
David B. McDonald
3 - Host Use by Generalist and Specialist Brood Parasitic Cowbirds at Population and Individual Levels
María C. de Mársico, Bettina Mahler, Manuela Chomnalez, Alejandro G. Di Giácomo and Juan C. Reboreda
4 - Dealing with Uncertainty: Flexible Reproductive Strategies in a Tropical Passerine Bird in an Unstable Ecological and Social Environment
Michael S. Webster, Jordan Karubian and Hubert Schwabl
5 - Color in a Long-lived Tropical Seabird: Sexual Selection in a Life History Context
Roxana Torres and Alberto Velando
6 - Intra-specific Variation in the Behavioral Ecology of a Tropical Carnivore, the Spotted Hyena
Kay E. Holekamp and Stephanie M. Dloniak
7 - Ecology, Social Behavior and Conservation in Zebras
Daniel I. Rubenstein
8 - Social Organization in Callithrix jacchus: Cooperation and Competition
Maria Emília Yamamoto, Arrilton Araújo, Maria Bernardete C. de Sousa and Maria de Fátima Arruda
9 - Ecological Determinants of Social Systems: Perspectives on the Functional Role of Roosting Ecology in the Social Behavior of Tent-roosting Bats
Gloriana Chaverri and Thomas H. Kunz

Report

"The series is designed for psychologists, zoologists, and psychiatrists, but will also be a valuable reference for workers in endocrinology, neurology, physiology, ethnology, and ecology." --Biological Abstracts

Product details

• Authors: H. Jane (EDT)/ Snowdon Brockmann, H. Jane Snowdon Brockmann
• Assisted by: H. Jane Brockmann (Editor), Regina Macedo (Editor), Regina (Departamento de Zoologia Macedo (Editor), Regina H Macedo (Editor), Regina H. Macedo (Editor), Regina H. (Departamento de Zoologia Macedo (Editor), Marc Naguib (Editor), Regina H. Macedo (Editor), Timothy J. Roper (Editor), Charles T. Snowdon (Editor), Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.11.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780123808943
• ISBN: 978-0-12-380894-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Academic Press; Academic Press; Advances in the Study of Behav; Advances in the Study of Behavior
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Animal behaviour, Tropics, Ethology and animal behaviour