Advances in the study of behavior. Volume 51 / edited by Marc Naguib [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naguib, Marc, author.

Contributor:

Naguib, Marc, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Academic Press, An imprint of Elsevier, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 51, provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field. Users will find new information on a variety of species, including The troublesome gift: the spermatophylax as a purveyor of sexual conflict and coercion, Conformity and over-imitation: an integrative review of two forms of hyper-reliance on social learning, Copulatory behavior and genital morphology in vertebrates, Sexual selection in polyandrous societies: Lessons from the fowl, Sensory information in social insects, Evolution of female coloration, what have we learned from birds in general and blue tits in particular, Sexual selection and social behavior in spiders, and more. Serves the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior Makes another important contribution to the development of the field Presents theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and related fields

Contents:

Front Cover

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Reference

Chapter One: The troublesome gift: The spermatophylax as a purveyor of sexual conflict and coercion in crickets

1. What are nuptial food gifts?

2. The cricket spermatophylax

3. Sexual conflict over female acceptance of the gift

4. Sexual conflict over female remating

5. The cost of producing a spermatophylax

6. Origin of nuptial food gifts

7. Resolving the conflict over sexual conflict

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter Two: Conformity and over-imitation: An integrative review of variant forms of hyper-reliance on social learning

1. Introduction

2. Conformity

2.1. Variant conceptions of conformity

2.2. (When) do humans exhibit different forms of conformity?

2.2.1. Aschian conformity

2.2.2. Conformist transmission (aka conformist bias)

2.2.3. Copy the majority

2.3. Do non-human species exhibit conformity?

2.3.1. Copy the majority

2.3.2. Aschian conformity

2.3.3. Conformist transmission (aka conformist bias)

2.3.4. Quorum sensing and conformity to majorities

3. Over-imitation

3.1. The nature of over-imitation (OI)

3.2. Is ``overimitation´´ imitation? Is it over imitation?

4. Over-imitation and conformity: Compare and contrast

4.1. Shared features and differences between OI and conformity

4.2. Functional and causal explanations of over-imitation and conformity

4.3. The phylogenetic distribution of conformity and over-imitation

4.4. Avoidance of dysfunctional risks in the potency of conformist and over-imitative processes

5. Concluding remarks

Chapter Three: Sexual selection in socially-structured, polyandrous populations: Some insights from the fowl

1. Introduction.

1.1. Sexual selection: A brief synopsis

1.2. The polyandry revolution

1.3. The fowl model system

2. Pre-copulatory sexual selection

2.1. The significance of female preference

2.2. Social modulation

3. Drivers of polyandry

4. Post-copulatory sexual selection

4.1. Male social status

4.2. Sperm number and differential sperm allocation

4.3. Sperm fertilizing efficiency

4.4. Seminal fluid

4.5. Genetic compatibility and relatedness

5. The impact of polyandry on sexual selection

6. Concluding remarks

6.1. A cautionary note and future challenges

Further reading

Chapter Four: Cowbird cognition: Examinations of the mental skills of a brood parasite

1. Historical antecedents

2. The case for evolution of cognition in cowbirds

3. Experiments on nest selection: A two-phase design

4. Egg size, color, and pattern discrimination

5. Numerical competence

6. Timing

7. Putting it all together: Episodic memory

8. Age and experience effects on cognition

8.1. Young vs old females

8.2. High layers vs low layers

8.3. Individual differences

9. Nest prospecting and social cognition

10. Adaptive specialization or general cognitive skill?

11. Summary

Chapter Five: Sexual selection and social context: Web-building spiders as emerging models for adaptive plasticity

1.1. Adaptive phenotypic plasticity

1.2. Why spiders? Leveraging extreme mating for studies of plasticity

1.3. Tests of adaptive plasticity: Empirical challenges

2. Variable sexual selection linked to social context

2.1. Demography, social context, and sexual selection

2.2. Sliding, overlapping scales of variation in social context

2.2.1. Environmental and individual social context.

3. Sexual selection and social context in (some) web-building spiders

3.1. Spatial distribution, phenology, and development of focal spider taxa

3.1.1. Relevance for adaptive plasticity

3.1.2. Detectable information and complex cues of shifting social context

3.2. Extreme mating systems and sexual selection

3.2.1. Episodes of selection and trade-offs in performance

3.2.2. Genital mutilation and terminal investment: Severe limits on male mating

3.2.3. Scrambling to find females

3.2.4. Competition, choice, and fertilization success with sexual cannibals

4. Tests of adaptive plasticity in Nephila, Argiope, and Latrodectus spiders

4.1. Direction and intensity of sexual selection fluctuates with social context

4.2. Phenotypic distributions correlate with social context in nature

4.3. Divergent critical periods for developmental and activational plasticity

4.4. Developmental acceleration: Monogyny is not sufficient

4.5. Mate searching, developmental plasticity, and the integrated phenotype

5. Adaptive plasticity: Where are we now?

5.1. Summing it up for cannibalistic, mate-limited spiders

5.2. Needed: Detailed empiricism welded to an evolutionary framework

Back Cover.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-12-817125-1

0-12-817124-3