The Social Organizations of Mammals
Author | : John Frederick Eisenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Mammals |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Frederick Eisenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Mammals |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Hurrell Crook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dr. Jens Krause |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0199679045 |
The scientific study of networks - computer, social, and biological - has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the field of animal behaviour relatively late compared to many other biological disciplines. Understanding social network structure is of great importance for biologists since the structural characteristics of any network will affect its constituent members and influence a range of diverse behaviours. These include finding and choosing a sexual partner, developing and maintaining cooperative relationships, and engaging in foraging and anti-predator behavior. This novel text provides an overview of the insights that network analysis has provided into major biological processes, and how it has enhanced our understanding of the social organisation of several important taxonomic groups. It brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing both an overview of the power of the network approach for understanding patterns and process in animal populations, as well as outlining how current methodological constraints and challenges can be overcome. Animal Social Networks is principally aimed at graduate level students and researchers in the fields of ecology, zoology, animal behaviour, and evolutionary biology but will also be of interest to social scientists.
Author | : Niko Tinbergen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2014-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781614275862 |
2014 Reprint of 1953 New York Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book aims to be a presentation of a biological approach to the phenomena of social behavior in animals. This approach is characterized by the need for careful observation of the variety of social phenomena occurring in nature; by emphasis on a balanced study of the three main biological problems - function, causation, evolution; by emphasis on an appropriate sequence of description, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis; and finally by emphasis on the need for continuous re-synthesis. The book covers a range of aspects of animal behavior, including mating, fighting, family and group life, and social organizations, as well as some unrelated analytical evidence, acquired under such special laboratory conditions it is at present impossible to say how it is related to the normal life of the species concerned. The significance of intraspecific fighting, the causation of threat and courtship behavior, the functions of releasers and other problems are discussed in detail and an attempt has been made to give them their proper place in the complex system of problems. Tinbergen was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals.
Author | : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1108470971 |
A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.
Author | : Frans B. M. De Waal |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674034129 |
For over 25 years, primatologists have speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to the complicated social milieu of hard-won friendships and bitterly contested rivalries. Yet the Balkanization of animal research has prevented us from studying the same problem in other large-brained, long-lived animals, such as hyenas and elephants, bats and sperm whales. Social complexity turns out to be widespread indeed. For example, in many animal societies one individual's innovation, such as tool use or a hunting technique, may spread within the group, thus creating a distinct culture. As this collection of studies on a wide range of species shows, animals develop a great variety of traditions, which in turn affect fitness and survival. The editors argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own. At a time when humans are perceived more biologically than ever before, and animals as more cultural, are we about to witness the dawn of a truly unified social science, one with a distinctly cross-specific perspective?
Author | : John F. Eisenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1966 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Ashley Ward |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2016-04-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319285858 |
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.
Author | : Hilary O. Box |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1999-10-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521632638 |
Social learning commonly refers to the social transfer of information and skill among individuals. It encompasses a wide range of behaviours that include where and how to obtain food, how to interact with members of one's own social group, and to identify and respond appropriately to predators. The behaviour of experienced individuals provides natural sources of information, by which inexperienced individuals may learn about the opportunities and hazards of their environment, and develop and modify their own behaviour as a result. A wide diversity of species is discussed in this book, some of which have never been discussed in this context before, and particular reference is made to their natural life strategies. Social learning in humans is also considered by comparison with other mammals, especially in their technological and craft traditions. Moreover, a discussion is included of the social learning abilities of prehistoric hominids.
Author | : John Frederick Eisenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Mammals |
ISBN | : |