The social behavior of older animals / Anne Innis Dagg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dagg, Anne Innis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social behavior in animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At once instructive and compelling, this theme-spanning book reveals the complex nature of maturity in scores of social species and shows that animal behavior often displays the same diversity we find in ourselves.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Evolutionary Matters

2 Sociality, Media, and Variability

3 The Wisdom of Elders

4 Leaders

5 Teaching and Learning

6 Reproduction

7 Successful Subordinates

8 The Fall of Titans

9 Aging of Captive Alphas

10 Happy Families

11 Mothering-Good and Not So Good

12 Grandmothers

13 Sexy Seniors

14 Their Own Person

15 Adapting and Not Adapting

16 All Passion Spent

17 The Inevitable End

Notes

References

Index

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

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T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-9539-1

OCLC:

557678415