Synopses & Reviews
Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields. Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect — full-text online from volume 30 onward.
About the Author
Dr. H. Jane Brockmann is professor of zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests include ethology, behavioral ecology; the evolution and economics of behavior; nesting and mating behavior of horseshoe crabs and solitary wasps; and alternative strategies, conflict evolution of social behavior and sex ratios.Charles T. Snowdon is a Hilldale Professor of Psychology and Zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Currently editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, he was previously North American Editor of
Animal Behaviour and has served as President of the Animal Behavior Society. He has held a Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health since 1977. His research interests are in vocal and chemical communication, reproductive behavioral biology, parental care and infant development in cooperatively breeding primates. His students and collaborators work in both captive and field settings.Professor Tim Roper has a Personal Chair in Animal Behaviour at the University of Sussex. He has been Secretary of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, a Council Member of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology and both European Editor and Executive Editor of Animal Behaviour. His research interest is in the behavioral ecology of social mammals, especially badgers.
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Table of Contents
- Stress and coping mechanisms in female primates (Cheney and Seyfarth)
- Reciprocal altruism in primates: partner choice, cognition and emotions (Schino and Aureli)
- The dog as a model for understanding human social behaviour (Topal, Miklosi, Gacsi, Doka, Pongracz, Kubinyi, Zsofia and Cxanyi)
- Strategies for social learning: testing predictions from formal theory (Galef)
- Behaviour of a unisexual fish, the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) and its sexual hosts (Ingo)
- Alternative mating tactics in acarid mites (Radwan)