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Table of Contents “...; Phenotypic plasticity: climate change and breeding times; Behaviour, ecology and evolution; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 2: Testing Hypotheses in Behavioural Ecology; The comparative approach; Breeding behaviour of gulls in relation to predation risk; Social organization of weaver birds; Social organization in African ungulates.; Limitations of early comparative studiesComparative approach to primate ecology and behaviour; Using phylogenies in comparative analysis; The comparative approach reviewed; Experimental studies of adaptation; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 3: Economic Decisions and the Individual; The economics of carrying a load; The economics of prey choice; Sampling and information; The risk of starvation; Environmental variability, body reserves and food storing; Food storing birds: from behavioural ecology to neuroscience; The evolution of cognition; Feeding and danger: a trade-off; Social learning.; Optimality models and behaviour: an overviewSummary; Further reading; CHAPTER 4: Predators versus Prey: Evolutionary Arms Races; Red Queen evolution; Predators versus cryptic prey; Enhancing camouflage; Warning colouration: aposematism; Mimicry; Trade-offs in prey defences; Cuckoos versus hosts; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 5: Competing for Resources; The Hawk-Dove game; Competition by exploitation: the ideal free distribution; Competition by resource defence: the despotic distribution; The ideal free distribution with unequal competitors; The economics of resource defence.; Producers and scroungersAlternative mating strategies and tactics; ESS thinking; Animal personalities; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 6: Living in Groups; How grouping can reduce predation; How grouping can improve foraging; Evolution of group living: shoaling in guppies; Group size and skew; Group decision making; Summary; Further reading; Chapter 7: Sexual Selection, Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict; Males and females; Parental investment and sexual competition; Why do females invest more in offspring care than do males?...”
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Table of Contents “...An introduction to animal behavior -- Behavioral ecology and the evolution of altruism -- The evolution of social behavior --The evolution of communication -- Avoiding predators and finding food -- The evolution of habitat selection, territoriality, and migration -- The evolution of reproductive behavior -- The evolution of mating systems -- The evolution of parental care -- Proximate and ultimate causes of behavior -- The development of behavior -- Evolution, nervous systems, and behavior -- How neurons and hormones organize behavior -- The evolution of human behavior....”

Table of Contents “...Neuronal mechanisms for releasing behaviour : predator and prey - toad and cockroach -- 4. Neuronal pathways for behaviour : startle behaviours and giant neurons in crayfish and fish -- 5. ...”

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Table of Contents “...Introduction : the stickleback model -- The reproductive cycle -- Homosexuality, cannibalism & sexual strategies -- Predators & parasites -- Physiology & behaviour -- Behavioural genetics, phylogenetics & speciation....”
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Table of Contents “...Introduction ; Assumptions of the cognitive-buffer hypothesis ; Predictions of the cognitive-buffer hypothesis ; Synthesis ; Avenues for future research ; Summary -- Decision making: mate choice and predator-prey interactions. Cognitive mate choice / Michael J. ...”

Table of Contents “...Van Valkenburgh, W.J. Binder -- Predator-prey relationships in fish and other aquatic vertebrates: kinematics and behaviour / R.S. ...”

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