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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953827303321

Titolo

Animal behavior : new research / / Emilie A. Weber and Lara H. Krause, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2008

ISBN

1-61122-949-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WeberEmilie A

KrauseLara H

Disciplina

591.5

Soggetti

Animal behavior - Research

Animal ecology - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sexual selection, mate choice, and primate preferences / Jack A. F. Griffey, Anthony C. Little -- Female mate choice in non-human mammals / Benjamin D. Charlton -- Partition test and sexual motivation in male mice / N. N. Kudryavtseva -- Gaze following in non-human animals: the corvid example / Christian Schloegl ... [et al.] -- How different host species influence parasitism patterns and larval competition of acoustically-orienting parasitoid flies (Tachinidae: Ormiini) / Gerlind U. C. Lehmann -- Insights into the acoustic behaviour of polar pinnnipeds - Current knowledge and emerging techniques of study / Ilse Van Opzeeland ... [et al.] -- Food hoarding in the New Zealand robin: a review and synthesis / Ignatius J. Menzies, K. C. Burns -- Discriminative learning, learning generalization and masking tests as three strategies to assess olfactory discrimination / Julian Colomb -- Constraints and the evolution of mutual ornamentation / Ken Kraaijeveld, Barbara M. Reumer.

Sommario/riassunto

This resource is devoted to recent research on animal behaviour which relates to what an animal does and why it does it. The types of behaviours exhibited are rich and various.