ANIMAL BEHAVIOR ONLINE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION: IS LIFE A GAME?

  • Animal behavior
  • Strategies and Tactics for Survival
  • Game Theory and Behavior
  • Classical Ethology

Chapter One Detailed Contents

CHAPTER TWO

REGULATION OF BEHAVIOR: NEURAL, SENSORY AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS

  • Neurons and functional control of behavior
  • Nervous systems
  • Endocrine systems
  • Neural and endocrine integration in the development of behavior
  • Sensing the environment

CHAPTER THREE

DRIVE, HOMEOSTASIS AND TIME BUDGETS

  • The ethological concept of drive
  • Modern concepts of homeostatic regulation
  • Balancing demands: how animals budget their time
  • Developmental and seasonal changes

CHAPTER FOUR

COMMUNICATION

  • Modes of communication
  • Evolution of communication
  • Game theory and communication
  • Communication in social groups

CHAPTER FIVE

EVOLUTION AND BEHAVIORAL GENETICS

  • Simple genetic models of behavior
  • Behavior as a quantitative trait
  • Artificial selection and behavior
  • Natural selection and behavior

CHAPTER SIX

LEARNING

  • Habituation and simple conditioning
  • Short and longterm storage of information
  • Animal intelligence

CHAPTER SEVEN

NAVIGATION AND DISPERSAL

  • Local navigation
  • Homing
  • Migration
  • Dispersal

CHAPTER EIGHT

FORAGING

  • Foraging strategies
  • Optimal foraging theory
  • Social foraging
  • Intelligence and foraging

CHAPTER NINE

SELF-DEFENSE

  • Vigilance
  • Crypsis
  • Active defense

CHAPTER TEN

NESTING AND TERRITORIALITY

  • Nesting
  • Agonism and territorial possession
  • Territories for feeding and mating

CHAPTER ELEVEN

MATING SYSTEMS

  • How many males, how many females?
  • Female mate choice
  • Male mate choice
  • Extrapair copulations

CHAPTER TWELVE

PARENTAL BEHAVIOR

  • Which parent cares for the young?
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Nurturing and helping
  • The ugly side of animal behavior: infanticide and siblicide

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

KINSHIP AND COOPERATION

  • The prisoner's dilemma revisited
  • Cooperation among non-kin
  • Cooperation among kin, kin selection and kin recognition
  • Extreme cooperation: eusocial animals

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

COGNITION AND EMOTION

  • The evolutionary roots of emotion
  • "Knowing" in animals
  • Do cognition and emotion establish a boundary between humans and other animals?

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION

  • Applying behavior in conservation contexts
  • Welfare and breeding in captive populations
  • Minimum population size, home range, and fluctuations in wild populations
  • The role of behaivor in reintroduction programs

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