Home ranges of animals : cognitive maps, research approaches, and insights / Roger A. Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Roger A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal behavior.

Home range (Animal geography).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Animals have tremendous agency to understand the world around them and to plan how to take best advantage of that world to meet their requirements. Their perception of the world differs from humans' and includes knowledge emphasising different senses. This book argues that to understand animals' home ranges, which are integral to the behaviour and ecology of animals, biologists must understand their cognition of their environments. Presenting diverse, complementary approaches to studying home ranges, this book shows how using multiple approaches sheds a broad light on how and why animals behave as they do. The book also provides many examples showing how hypothesis-driven research provides strong insights into animal behaviour and ecology.

Contents:

1 An introduction to home ranges

2 Territories

3 Cognitive maps and the definition of a home range

4 Movement

5 Information, movements, and home ranges

6 Mechanistic familiarity distributions

7 Economic and cost–benefit models and home ranges

8 Foraging optimally for a home range

9 Game theory and home ranges

10 Familiarity distributions I: infrequently asked questions

11 Building familiarity distributions

12 Familiarity distributions III: overlap, cores, activity and sensory kernels, areas

13 A doorway to new cogitations on home ranges

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191949142

0191949140

9780192674111

0192674110

OCLC:

1535775752

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license