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The increasing realization among behaviorists and psychologists is that many animals learn by observation as members of social systems. Such settings contribute to the formation of culture. This book combines the knowledge of two groups of scientists with different backgrounds to establish a working consensus for future research. The book is divided into two major sections, with contributions by a well-known, international, and interdisciplinary team which integrates these growing areas of inquiry.Key Features* Integrates the broad range of scientific approaches being used in the s

Learning in animals. --- Social behavior in animals. --- Animal behavior --- Animal societies --- Animal learning --- Animal intelligence --- Apprentissage chez les animaux --- Comportement social des animaux --- Imitation

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591.5 --- Ethologie --- 591.5 Animal habits. Animal behaviour. Ecology. Ethology. Animal and environment. Bionomy --- Animal habits. Animal behaviour. Ecology. Ethology. Animal and environment. Bionomy --- Sociétés animales --- Comportement social des animaux --- Animaux --- Moeurs et comportement --- Comportement social des animaux. --- Sociétés animales. --- Moeurs et comportement. --- Social behavior in animals --- Comportement animal. --- Behavior, Animal --- Behavior, Animal. --- Animal societies --- Models, theoretical --- Social behavior

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Animal Vigilance builds on the author's previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms underlying vigilance, as well as developing more fully the evolution and function of vigilance. Animal vigilance has been at the forefront of research on animal behavior for many years, but no comprehensive review of this topic has existed. Students of animal behavior have focused on many aspects of animal vigilance, from models of its adaptive value to empirical research

Animal psychology and neurophysiology --- Predation (Biology) --- Predatory animals. --- Animals. --- Animal societies --- Predatory animals --- Animal defenses --- Social behavior in animals --- Animal communities --- Prédation (biologie) --- Sociétés animales. --- Animaux prédateurs. --- Animaux --- Comportement animal. --- Comportement social des animaux. --- Communautés animales. --- Behavior --- Moyens de défense.

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Wolves excitedly greet each other as members of the pack come together; a bumble bee uses its long tongue to reach the nectar at the base of a foxglove flower; a mongoose swiftly and deftly bites its prey to death; young cheetahs rest quietly together, very close to sleep. Now in full colour, this revised and updated edition of Manning and Dawkins' classic text provides a beautifully written introduction to the fundamentals of animal behaviour. Tinbergen's four questions of causation, evolution, development and function form the fundamental framework of the text, illustrated with fascinating examples of complex behavioural mechanisms. The authors provide accounts of all levels of behaviour from the nerve cell to that of the population. The strengths of An Introduction to Animal Behaviour as a textbook include its clear explanations and concise, readable text and the enthusiasm of the authors for their subject.

Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Comportement --- Behaviour --- Comportement animal --- Animal behaviour --- Évolution --- evolution --- Communication animale --- Communication between animals --- Comportement social --- social behaviour --- Apprentissage animal --- Animal learning --- Animaux -- Moeurs et comportement --- Animaux --- Animal behavior. --- Moeurs et comportement --- MEDICAL / Veterinary Medicine / General. --- evolution. --- Moeurs et comportement. --- Behavioural biology --- Dierengedrag --- 591.5 --- Comportement animal. --- Behavior, Animal --- Behavior, Animal.

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This book outlines a possible future theoretical perspective for systemics, its conceptual morphology and landscape while the Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics (GOFS) era is still under way. The change from GOFS to future systemics can be represented, as shown in the book title, by the conceptual change from Collective Beings to Quasi-systems. With the current advancements, problems and approaches occurring in contemporary science, systemics are moving beyond the traditional frameworks used in the past. From Collective Beings to Coherent Quasi-Systems outlines a conceptual morphology and landscape for a new theoretical perspective for systemics introducing the concept of Quasi-systems. Advances in domains such as theoretical physics, philosophy of science, cell biology, neuroscience, experimental economics, network science and many others offer new concepts and technical tools to support the creation of a fully transdisciplinary General Theory of Change. This circumstance requires a deep reformulation of systemics, without forgetting the achievements of established conventions. The book is divided into two parts. Part I, examines classic systemic issues from new theoretical perspectives and approaches. A new general unified framework is introduced to help deal with topics such as dynamic structural coherence and Quasi-systems. This new theoretical framework is compared and contrasted with the traditional approaches. Part II focuses on the process of translation into social culture of the theoretical principles, models and approaches introduced in Part I. This translation is urgent in post-industrial societies where emergent processes and problems are still dealt with by using the classical or non-systemic knowledge of the industrial phase.

Business. --- System theory. --- Economic sociology. --- Business and Management. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Complex Systems. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Economics --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Trade --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects --- Science --- Management --- Commerce --- Industrial management --- Philosophy --- Sociology --- Physique --- Psychologie --- Comportement social --- Operations research. --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Decision making. --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Decision making