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Essays in Animal Behaviour: Celebrating 50 Years of Animal Behaviour

Lucas, Jeffrey R; Simmons, Leigh W.

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Table of contents
  • Contentsvii
  • Creditsv
  • Contributorsxi
  • Section I: INTRODUCTION1
  • Chapter 1. Fifty Years of Animal Behaviour1
  • Section II: THE HISTORY OF BEHAVIOURAL RESEARCH5
  • Chapter 2. A Textbook History of Animal Behaviour5
  • Chapter 3. Behavioural Ecology: Natural History as Science23
  • Chapter 4. The Transformation of Behaviour Field Studies57
  • Chapter 5. Too Much Natural History, or Too Little?81
  • Chapter 6. A History of Animal Behaviour by a Partial, Ignorant and Prejudiced Ethologist89
  • Section III: PROXIMATE MECHANISMS101
  • Chapter 7. Genes and Social Behaviour101
  • Chapter 8. Control of Behavioural Strategies for Capricious Environments115
  • Chapter 9. Costing Reproduction135
  • Section IV: DEVELOPMENT147
  • Chapter 10. The Promise of Behavioural Biology147
  • Chapter 11. Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Understanding When Animals Use Socially Acquired161
  • Chapter 12. Behavioural Processes Affecting Development: Tinbergen’s Fourth Question Comes of Age183
  • Chapter 13. The Case for Developmental Ecology209
  • Section V: ADAPTATION221
  • Chapter 14. Beyond Extra-Pair Paternity: Constraints, Fitness Components, and Social Mating Systems221
  • Chapter 15. Condition-Dependent Indicators in Sexual Selection: Development of Theory and Tests255
  • Chapter 16. Indirect Selection and Individual Selection in Sociobiology: My Personal Views on Theori271
  • Chapter 17. Honesty and Deception in Animal Signals281
  • Chapter 18. Fifty Years of Bird Song Research: A Case Study in Animal Behaviour301
  • Chapter 19. Avian Navigation: From Historical to Modern Concepts315
  • Section VI: ANIMAL WELFARE347
  • Chapter 20. Animal Welfare347
  • Index363
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780123694997
  • ISBN-13 9780080494821
  • Author Lucas, Jeffrey R; Simmons, Leigh W.
  • Category Science
  • Subject Ecology

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Recently, the 50th anniversary of the publication of Animal Behaviour has passed. To mark the occasion, a group of prominent behaviourists have written essays relevant to their fields. These essays provide a glimpse of the study of behaviour looking in all directions. History and future aside, it is imperative to broadcast this information from the perspective of the behaviourists who have helped shape both the past and the future. It is important for any field to be both retrospective and prospective: where have we been, where are we going, where are we now? These essays provide a unique personal reflection on the history of animal behaviour from John Alcock, Stuart and Jeanne Altmann, Steve Arnold, Geoff Parker, and Felicity Huntingford. Six topics are reflected on and include: The History of Animal Behavioural Research, Proximate Mechanisms, Development, Adaptation, and Animal Welfare.

* Broad range of essays on animal behaviour
* Written by leaders in the field
* Offers a history of the study of behaviour plus essays on the future of behavioural studies
* Contains over 30 full color illustrations
* Includes essays on development, mechanisms and adaptive significance of behaviour