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Animal vigilance : monitoring predators and competitors / Guy Beauchamp.
Veterinary: Atwood Library (Campus) QL759 .B43 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beauchamp, Guy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal defenses.
- Alarm reaction.
- Vigilance (Psychology).
- Predation (Biology).
- Animal behavior.
- Animal societies.
- Predatory animals--Behavior.
- Predatory animals.
- Social behavior in animals.
- Animal communities.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2015]
- Summary:
- Animal vigilance has been at the forefront of research on animal behavior for more than 30 years, and yet no comprehensive review of this, topic in book format has been offered. Students of animal behavior have focused on many aspects of animal vigilance, from models of its adaptive value to empirical research in the laboratory and in the field. The vast literature on vigilance is widely dispersed, with often little contact between models and empirical work and between researchers focusing on different taxa such as birds and mammals. Animal Vigilance: Monitoring Predators and Competitors tackles vigilance from all angles, theoretical and empirical, while including the broadest range of species to underscore unifying themes. Discusses several newer developments in the area, such as vigilance copying and effect of food density, Highlights recent challenges to aspects of traditional models vigilance, such as the assumption that vigilance is independent among group members, Discusses synchronization and coordination of vigilance in a group, Written by a top expert in animal vigilance Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Overview of animal vigilance
- Function of animal vigilance
- Causation, development and evolution of animal vigilance
- Drivers of animal vigilance
- Animal vigilance and group size : theory
- Animal vigilance and group size : empirical findings
- Synchronization and coordination of animal vigilance
- Applied vigilance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780128019832
- 0128019832
- OCLC:
- 920670764
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