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“....; 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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