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Advances in the study of behavior. Volume 57 / edited by Jeffrey Podos, Susan Healy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in the Study of Behavior Series ; v.Volume 57
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human behavior.
- Animal behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2025.
- Summary:
- Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 57 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of interesting topics, including Thinking Through Change: The Role of Environmental Factors in Shaping Vertebrate Cognition, Cold-Blooded Cognition: Recent advances in reptile cognition and their.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Advances in the Study of Behavior
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Thinking through change: The role of environmental factors in shaping vertebrate cognition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Abiotic factors
- 2.1 Temperature
- 2.2 Oxygen availability
- 3 Biotic factors
- 3.1 Predation risk
- 3.2 Disease/parasites
- 4 Complexity
- 4.1 Social environment
- 4.2 Habitat complexity
- 5 Discussion
- References
- Chapter Two: Cold-blooded cognition: Recent advances in reptile cognition and their implications
- 1 Current knowledge
- 1.1 Perception
- 1.2 Visual perception
- 1.3 Chemical perception
- 1.4 Auditory perception
- 2 Physical cognition
- 2.1 Spatial cognition
- 2.2 Quantity discrimination
- 2.3 Behavioral flexibility
- 3 Memory
- 4 Social cognition
- 5 Summary
- 6 Future directions
- 7 Understanding the evolution of vertebrate cognition
- 7.1 Increasing the welfare of reptiles in captivity
- 7.2 Conservation
- 8 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter Three: 10 Things you thought you knew about nest building: Myths or not?
- 2 Myth no. 1: Nests are only for eggs and young
- 2.1 Myth or not?
- 3 Myth no. 2: Nest building is expensive
- 3.1 Suitable location
- 3.2 Material production
- 3.3 Material collection
- 3.4 Nests as a handicap
- 3.5 Myth or not?
- 4 Myth no. 3: Nests reduce predation risk
- 4.1 Myth or not?
- 5 Myth no. 4: Builders camouflage their nests
- 5.1 Myth or not?
- 6 Myth no. 5: Nests are for thermoregulation
- 6.1 Building to warm up
- 6.2 Building to cool off
- 6.3 Myth or not?
- 7 Myth no. 6: Building is instinctive
- 7.1 Myth or not?
- 8 Myth no. 7: Nests are 'comfy'
- 8.1 Myth or not?
- 9 Myth no. 8: Synthetic materials are bad
- 9.1 Myth or not?
- 10 Myth no. 9: Males do most of the work.
- 10.1 Myth or not?
- 11 Myth no. 10: Nest diversity explains species diversity
- 11.1 Myth or not?
- 12 Conclusion
- Chapter Four: The behavioral ecology of rapid color change in fishes: Context, diversity, &
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- 2 Methods
- 3 Results
- 3.1 Synthesis
- 3.2 Ecology of species with rapid color change
- 3.3 Phylogenetic distribution of rapid color change
- 3.4 Behavioral contexts of rapid color change
- 3.4.1 Descriptions of categories
- 3.4.2 Protective coloration
- 3.4.2.1 Types of protective color change
- 3.4.2.2 Why rapid color change?
- 3.4.3 Sexual behaviors
- 3.4.3.1 Types of sexual color patterns
- 3.4.3.2 Why rapid color change?
- 3.4.3.3 Relationship between ephemeral reproductive coloration and other types of reproductive coloration
- 3.4.3.4 Relationship between reproductive and agonistic coloration
- 3.4.4 Agonistic interactions
- 3.4.4.1 Types of agonistic interactions
- 3.4.4.2 Why rapid color change?
- 3.4.4.3 Forms of agonistic color change and their significance
- 3.4.5 Disturbance
- 3.4.5.1 Types of disturbance
- 3.4.5.2 Why rapid color change?
- 3.4.6 Cleaning interactions
- 3.4.6.1 Why rapid color change in client fish?
- 3.5 Mechanisms of rapid color change
- 3.5.1 Types of chromatophores involved in color change
- 3.5.2 How are chromatophores used in rapid color change?
- 3.5.3 Neuroendocrine control of chromatophores
- 3.5.3.1 Hormonal control of rapid color change
- 3.5.3.2 Hormonal control of rapid color change: Implications for signaling
- 3.5.3.3 Neural control of rapid color change
- 3.5.3.4 Neural control of rapid color change: Implications for signaling
- 3.5.3.5 Combined neural and hormonal control of rapid color change.
- 3.5.4 Factors other than neural and hormonal control in chromatophores
- 3.6 Extent of rapid color change
- 3.7 Perception of rapid color change
- 3.7.1 Fish vision differs greatly from human vision
- 3.7.2 Experimental studies of perception of color change
- 4 Conclusions and future directions
- Appendix A Supporting information
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-443-41464-5
- 0-443-41463-7
- OCLC:
- 1534814179
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