The social behavior of older animals / / Anne Innis Dagg

• Autore: Dagg Anne Innis
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 591.56
• Soggetto topico: Social behavior in animals
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Evolutionary Matters -- 2 Sociality, Media, and Variability -- 3 The Wisdom of Elders -- 4 Leaders -- 5 Teaching and Learning -- 6 Reproduction -- 7 Successful Subordinates -- 8 The Fall of Titans -- 9 Aging of Captive Alphas -- 10 Happy Families -- 11 Mothering-Good and Not So Good -- 12 Grandmothers -- 13 Sexy Seniors -- 14 Their Own Person -- 15 Adapting and Not Adapting -- 16 All Passion Spent -- 17 The Inevitable End -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: At once instructive and compelling, this theme-spanning book reveals the complex nature of maturity in scores of social species and shows that animal behavior often displays the same diversity we find in ourselves.
• Titolo autorizzato: The social behavior of older animals
• ISBN: 0-8018-9539-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810355203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II