Contributors |
Preface / H.J. Brockmann |
The Evolution of Alternative Strategies and Tactics / R.W. Elwood ; M. Briffa |
Information Gathering and Communication during Agonistic Encounters: A Case Study of Hermit Crabs / H.C. Gerhardt |
Acoustic Communication in Two Groups of Closely Related Treefrogs / L.M. Gosling ; S.C. Roberts |
Scent-Marking by Male Mammals: Cheat-Proof Signals to Competitors and Mates / I.S. Penton-Voak ; D.I. Perrett |
Male Facial Attractiveness: Perceived Personality and Shifting Female Preferences for Male Traits across the Menstrual Cycle / H. Drummond |
The Control and Function of Agonism in Avian Broodmates |
Index |
Contents of Previous Volumes |
The Strategic Dynamics of Cooperation in Primate Groups / Joan B. Silk |
Coexistence in Female-Bonded Primate Groups / S. Peter Henzi ; Louise Barrett |
The Evolution of Sociality in Spiders Yael Lubin and Trine Bilde Molecular Ecology Reveals the Hidden Complexities of the Seychelles Warbler / Jan Komdeur ; David S. Richardson |
Mate Choice and Genetic Quality: a Review of the Heterozygosity Theory Bart Kempenaers Sexual Conflict and the Evolution of Breeding Systems in Shorebirds / Gavin H. Thomas ; Tamaacute;s Szeacute;kely ; John D. Reynolds |
Post-copulatory Selection in the Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria (L.) and the Mate-now-choose-later Mechanism of Cryptic Female Choice / Paul I. Ward |
The Evolution, Function, and Meaning of Marmot Alarm Communication / Daniel T. Blumstein |
The Evolution of Geographic Variation in Bird Songs / Jeffrey Podos ; Paige S. Warren |
The Concept of Stress and Its Relevance for Animal Behavior / D. von Holst |
Stress and Immune Response / V. Apanius |
Behavioral Variability and Limits to Evolutionary Adaptation under Stress / P.A. Parsons |
Developmental Instability as a General Measure of Stress / A.P. Møller |
Stress and Decision-Making under the Risk of Predation: Recent Developments from |
Behavioral, Reproductive, and Ecological Perspectives / S.L. Lima |
Parasitic Stress and Self-Medication in Wild Animals / G.A. Lozano |
Stress and Human Behavior: Attractiveness, Women's Sexual Development, Postpartum Depression, and Baby's Cry / R. Thornhill ; F.B. Furlow |
Welfare, Stress, and the Evolution of Feelings / D.M. Broom |
Biological Conservation and Stress / H. Hofer ; M.L. East |
pter References |
Subject Index |
Self-Organization and Collective Behavior in Vertebrates / Iain D. Couzin ; Jens Krause |
Introduction / I.: |
Group Shape and Motion / II.: |
Group Internal Structure / III.: |
Group Size and Composition / IV.: |
Summary / V.: |
References |
Odor-Genes Covariance and Genetic Relatedness Assessments: Rethinking Odor-Based Recognition Mechanisms in Rodents / Josephine Todrank ; Giora Heth |
Odor-Genes Covariance |
Mechanisms Underlying Differential Behavioral Responses to Individual Odors |
Rethinking Terminology Associated with Odor-Based Mechanisms Underlying Differential Behavior Responses |
Speculations on the Origin and Evolution of Preferential Responses Based on G-Ratios and Their Function as a Premating Isolating Mechanism |
Prospects for Future Studies Relating to G-Ratios / VI.: |
Sex Role Reversal in Pipefish / Anders Berglund ; Gunilla RosenqvistVII.: |
Mate Competition and Sex Roles |
Female Ornaments |
Syngnathic Phylogeny |
Sex Roles in Syngnathids |
The Two Pipefish Species |
Parental Investment, Potential Reproductive Rates, the Operational Sex Ratio, and the Bateman Gradient |
Female Competition |
Male Choosiness / VIII.: |
Mate Choice and Parasites / IX.: |
Mate Choice and Offspring Quality / X.: |
Ornament in Female Syngnathus typhle / XI.: |
Conclusions / XII.: |
Fluctuating Asymmetry, Animal Behavior, and Evolution / John P. SwaddleXIII.: |
What Is Fluctuating Asymmetry and Why Is It Interesting? |
Fluctuating Asymmetry and Fitness |
Methodology Issues |
Important Gaps in Our Knowledge about Fluctuating Asymmetry |
A Revised Look at Fluctuating Asymmetry and Sexual Selection |
From Dwarf Hamster to Daddy: The Intersection of Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology That Produces Paternal Behavior / Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards |
Natural History |
Evolution of Biparental Care |
Endocrine Evolution in Phodopus campbelli |
Men Becoming Fathers |
Sex Specificity in Endocrinology |
Paternal Behavior and Aggression: Endocrine Mechanisms and Nongenomic Transmission of Behavior / Catherine A. Marler ; Janet K. Bester-Meredith ; Brian C. Trainor |
Testosterone: An Aggression Hormone, A Nurturing Hormone, or Both? |
Arginine Vasopressin: Functionally Similar to Testosterone? |
Cross-Generational Transmission of Aggression through Behavioral Mechanisms and the Role of Arginine Vasopressin |
Role of Plasticity in Paternal Behavior and Arginine Vasopressin in the Nongenomic Transmission of Aggression across Multiple Generations in Peromyscus |
Summary of Nongenomic Transmission of Aggression and Paternal Behavior across Generations and the Role of Arginine Vasopressin |
Cognitive Ecology: Foraging in Hummingbirds as a Model System / Susan D. Healy ; T. Andrew Hurly |
Learning and Memory |
Spatial Learning and Memory |
Timing |
Mechanisms and Evolution of Communal Sexual Displays in Arthropods and Anurans / Michael D. Greenfield |
Choruses and Light Shows: Nine Vignettes / I: |
Structural Elements: Adjustments of Diel Activity Pattern, Phase, and Rhythm / III: |
Adaptations and Emergent Properties / IV: |
Summary and Prognosis / V: |
A Functional Analysis of Feeding / George Collier |
Distinctions Between Approaches to the Study of Feeding |
The Currency of Cost |
Choice |
Deprivation |
Satiation / VI: |
Consumption Cost Versus Foraging Cost / VII: |
The Sexual Behavior and Breeding System of Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) / Monica Carosi ; Gary S. Linn ; Elisabetta VisalberghiVIII: |
Social Structure and Mating System |
Reproductive Physiology and Sexual Behavior |
Reproductive Competition and Mate Choice |
Conclusions: A One-Male or a Multi-Male Breeding System? |
Areas for Future Research |
Acoustic Communication in Noise / Henrik Brumm ; Hans Slabbekoorn |
The Problem of Background Noise |
The Sender's Side-Signal Production |
The Receiver's Side-Signal Perception |
Ethics and Behavioral Biology / Patrick Bateson |
Origins of Animal Liberation and Animal Rights |
Other Ethical Positions |
The Ethical Case for Using Animals in Research |
Towards Resolution |
Making the Assessments |
Conclusion |
Prenatal Sensory Ecology and Experience: Implications for Perceptual and Behavioral Development in Precocial Birds / Robert Lickliter |
Developmental Analysis of the Prenatal Sensory Ecology of Precocial Birds |
The Developmental Dynamics of the Prenatal Sensory Ecology of Precocial Birds |
Prenatal Sensory Ecology: Sources of Stability and Variability in Behavioral Development |
Effects of Prenatal Sensory Ecology on Arousal, Attention, and Perceptual Processing |
Prenatal Sensory Ecology in Real-Time: The Arousal/Attention Complex |
Effects of Prenatal Sensory Stimulation on Perception, Learning, and Memory |
The Dividends of an Ecological/Developmental Systems Perspective |
Conflict and Cooperation in Wild Chimpanzees / Martin N. Muller ; John C. MitaniIX: |
Chimpanzee Society, Demography, and Ecology |
Conflict |
Cooperation |
Cooperating to Compete |
Trade-Offs in the Adaptive Use of Social and Asocial Learning / Rachel L. Kendal ; Isabelle Coolen ; Yfke van Bergen ; Kevin N. Laland |
Evidence That Animals Exploit Socially Transmitted Information Where Asocial Learning Would Be Costly |
Evidence That Animals Exploit Social Information When Uncertain as to What to Do |
Implications for Social Learning Researchers |
General Discussion |
Stress and coping mechanisms in female primates / Cheney ; Seyfarth |
Reciprocal altruism in primates: Partner choice, cognition and emotions / Schino ; Aureli |
The dog as a model for understanding human social behaviour / Topal ; Miklosi ; Gacsi ; Doka ; Pongracz ; Kubinyi ; Zsofia ; Cxanyi |
Strategies for social learning: testing predictions from formal theory / Galef |
Behaviour of a unisexual fish, the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) and its sexual hosts / Ingo |
Alternative mating tactics in acarid mites / Radwan |
Environmental Acoustics and the Evolution of Bird Song / Marc Naguib |
Introduction to Communication in the Wild |
Signaler Adaptations |
Receiver Adaptations |
Acknowledgments |
The Evolution of Song in the Phylloscopus Leaf Warblers (Aves: Sylviidae): A Tale of Sexual Selection, Habitat Adaptation, and Morphological Constraints / Bettina Mahler ; Diego Gil |
Material and Methods |
Results |
Discussion |
A Review of Vocal Duetting in Birds / Michelle L. Hall |
Duet Structure |
Development of Duets |
Neural Basis of Duetting |
Hormonal Basis of Duetting |
Ecology and Life History |
Evolution |
Function |
Acoustic Communication in Delphinids / Vincent M. Janik |
Types of Vocalizations |
Perception of Communication Signals |
Communication Ranges and Strategies |
Geographic Variation and Dialects |
Vocal Development and Vocal Learning |
Functions of Delphinid Communication Signals |
Evolutionary Aspects |
Cognition |
Future Directions / X: |
Vocal Performance and Sensorimotor Learning in Songbirds / David C. Lahti ; Dana L. Moseley |
Vocal Performance |
Song Learning in Songbirds |
Vocal Performance and Sensorimotor Learning |
Vocal Performance and Developmental Stress |
Song and Female Mate Choice in Zebra Finches: A Review / Katharina Riebel |
How Important is Song in Zebra Finch Mate Choice? |
Which Song Characteristics are Attractive? |
Female Ontogeny and Variation in Song Preferences |
Plasticity of Communication in Nonhuman Primates / Charles T. Snowdon |
Plasticity of Production |
Plasticity in Usage |
Plasticity in Comprehension |
Communication Signals and Social Learning and Teaching |
Long-Term Memory |
Overall Summary and Conclusions |
Survivor Signals: The Biology and Psychology of Animal Alarm Calling / Klaus Zuberbühler |
The Evolution of Alarm Calls |
Alarm Call Structure |
The Cognitive Bases of Alarm Calls |
Conceptual Issues |
The Cognition of Caching and Recovery in Food-Storing Birds / C.R.Raby ; N.S.Clayton |
Use of Spatial Memory to Recover Caches |
Variation |
Caching, Recovery, and the-Hippocampus |
Adaptive Specialization? |
The Evolution of Mate Preferences, Sensory Biases, and Indicator Traits / Gregory F. Grether |
New Approach for Testing the Indicator Models |
Evolution of Indicator Traits |
Additional Suggestions for Further Research |
Age-Related Changes in Birds' Singing Styles: On Fresh Tunes and Fading Voices? / Silke Kipper ; Sarah Kiefer |
Signaling Age-Why Would or Should One, After All? |
Song Structures That Encode Age Information |
Patterns of Changes: The Big Shift Between Year 1 and 2? |
Longitudinal Versus Cross-Sectional Comparisons |
How to Change Singing Styles: Possible Mechanisms |
A Synthesis |
Tonic Communication in the Antipredator Behavior of Ground Squirrels / Donald H. Owings |
Multiple Time Frames of Behavioral Processes |
Tonic Communication |
Tonic Processes in Ground Squirrel Antipredator Behavior |
Complexities in the Concept of Tonic Communication |
Future Directions: Dealing with Resistant Signal Targets |
Parasite Manipulation of Host Behavior: An Update and Frequently Asked Questions / Robert Poulin |
When Is It Adaptive Manipulation? |
What Kinds of Parasites Manipulate Their Host? |
What Host Traits Are Manipulated by Parasites? |
Why Do Some Parasites Manipulate Their Host but Others Do not? |
How Effective Is Host Manipulation? |
How Do Parasites Do It? |
Looking Ahead |
Calling in the Face of Danger; Predation Risk and Acoustic Communication by Parent Birds and Their Offspring / Robert D. MagRath ; Tonya M. Haff ; Andrew G. Horn ; Marty L. Leonard |
Vocalizations by Young |
Parental Vocalizations |
Acoustic Interactions Between Parents and Young |
Conclusions and Future Directions |
How Many Ways Can Mouse Behavioral Experiments Go Wrong? Confounding Variables in Mouse Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases and How to Control Them / Heather M. Schellinck ; David P. Cyr ; Richard E. Brown |
The Importance of Genetically Modified Mice in Neurobehavioral Research |
The R6/2 Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease |
Behavioral Phenotyping |
Critiques and Confounds in the Neurobehavioral Phenotyping of Genetically Modified Mice |
The Mouse Itself as a Confounding Factor |
The Rearing Environment and Life-Time Experience of the Mouse |
Neurobehavioral Test Batteries: Experimental Design and Statistics |
The Test Room Environment |
The Test Apparatus |
Experimenter Effects |
Publication Bias / XI: |
General Summary: What Have We Learned About / XII: |
Testing Mouse Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases? |
Contents of previous Volumes |
Polyandry, Sperm Competition and the evolution of Anuran Amphibians / J Dale Roberts ; P.G. Byrne |
The Role Of Coloration In Mate Choice And Sexual Interactions In Butterflies / Darrell J. Kemp ; Ronald L. Rutowski |
Hormone-behavior Interrelationships of Birds in Response to Weather / John C. Wingfield ; Marilyn Ramenofsky |
Conflict, Cooperation and Cognition in the Common Raven / Bernd Heinrich |
Communication Networks And Spatial Ecology In Nightingales / Hansjoerg P. Kunc ; Philipp Sprau ; Tobias Roth ; Valentin Amrhein |
Direct Benefits And The Evolution Of Female Mating Preferences: Conceptual Problems, Potential Solutions, And A Field / Cricket William E. Wagner Jr. |
Using Robots to Understand Animal Behavior / Barbara Webb |
Behavior and the Physical Interface |
Completing the Mechanism Description |
Toward the Complete Cricket |
Social Foraging and the Study of Exploitative Behavior / Luc-Alain Giraldeau ; Frederique dubois |
Why Study Foraging? |
The Advent of Social Foraging Theory |
The PS Game |
Rate-Maximizing PS Model |
Stochastic, Risk-Sensitive Models |
State-Dependent Dynamic PS Game |
PS Information Games |
Projecting Down to Individual Behavior |
Implications for Population Effects |
Relevance of PS Games for Non-Food Resources |
Social Processes Influencing Learning in Animals: A Review of the Evidence / Will Hoppitt |
Classification of Processes Involved in Social Learning |
Empirical Evidence for Social Learning Processes |
Function and Mechanisms of Song Learning in Song Sparrows / Michael D. Beecher |
Studies of Social Factors in Song Learning |
Developing Theories of Song Learning |
Song Function and Song Learning in Song Sparrows |
Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes / Andrew Sih ; Alison M. Bell |
A Brief History of the Idea |
Clarifying the Definition of a Behavioral Syndrome |
Understanding Variation in Behavioral Syndromes |
Beyond the Usual Behavioral Syndromes |
Future Prospects |
Information Warfare and Parent-Offspring Conflict / Rebecca M. Kilner ; Camilla A. Hinde |
Parent-Offspring Conflict as a Selective Force in Nature |
Information from Offspring to Parents |
Interactions Among Siblings |
Information from Parents to Offspring |
Hormones in Avian Eggs: Physiology, Ecology and Behavior |
Physiology |
Effects of Yolk Androgens |
Variation Within Clutches |
Differences Between Females |
Comparative Studies |
A Mechanism for Sex-Ratio Adjustment? |
Egg Cocktails |
Neurobiology of Maternal Behavior in Sheep / Frederic Levy ; Matthieu Keller |
Expression of Maternal Behavior in Sheep |
Neurobiology of Maternal Responsiveness |
Neurobiology of Maternal Selectivity |
Individual Odors and Social Communication: Individual Recognition, Kin Recognition, and Scent Over-Marking / Robert E. Johnston |
Individual Discrimination and Recognition |
Discrimination and Recognition of Kin |
Individual Advertisement and Competition by Scent Marking |
Scent Over-Marking |
Sex at the Snake Den: Lust, Deception and Conflict in the Mating System of Red-Sided Gartersnakes |
The Evolution of Animal Nuptial Gifts |
The Evolution of Inbred Social Systems in Spiders and Other Organisms: From Short-term Gains to Long-term Evolutionary Dead-ends? |
The Behavior of Wild White-faced Capuchins: Demography, Life History, Social Relationships, and Communication |
Studying Female Reproductive Activities in Relation to Male Song: The Domestic Canary as a Model |
Causes and Consequences of Differential Growth in Birds: A Behavioral Perspective |
Increasing Awareness of Ecosystem Services Provided by Bats |