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South America is home to perhaps the largest and most diversified radiation (some 200 species) of nonhuman primates on Earth. Given the conservation imperative associated with forest destruction and environmental change, and recent increases in the number of primate field studies, the editors of this volume have brought together a distinguished set of primatologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and conservation scientists to examine the nature and range of primate responses to changes in their ecological and social environments, and to use data on South American monkeys to develop models to address critical theoretical questions in the study of primate behavior, ecology, and conservation. Chapters in the volume focus on issues of taxonomy, biogeography and evolution, reproduction and fertility, mating systems, demography and life history traits, genetics and kinship, cognition, feeding adaptations, predation, rainforest ecology, the affects of forest fragmentation on ecosystem health and disease, the impact of human hunting on mammalian communities, and competing pressures for land use between the local human population and the remaining primate population.

New World monkeys. --- Primates --- Quadrumana --- Ecology --- Behavior --- Conservation --- Life sciences. --- Behavioral sciences. --- Ecology. --- Zoology. --- Life Sciences. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Mammals --- Animal behavior. --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Zoology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Natural history --- Ecology .

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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.

Animal behavior. --- Human behavior. --- Psychology, Comparative. --- Behavior, Comparative --- Comparative behavior --- Comparative psychology --- Ethology, Comparative --- Intelligence of animals --- Zoology --- Animal behavior --- Animal intelligence --- Animal psychology --- Human behavior --- Instinct --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human beings --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Psychology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethologists --- Behavior

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Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists how to apply it to their work on animal populations. Exploring Animal Social Networks provides a practical guide for researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students in ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and zoology. Existing methods for studying animal social structure focus either on one animal and its interactions or on the average properties of a whole population. This book enables researchers to probe animal social structure at all levels, from the individual to the population. No prior knowledge of network theory is assumed. The authors give a step-by-step introduction to the different procedures and offer ideas for designing studies, collecting data, and interpreting results. They examine some of today's most sophisticated statistical tools for social network analysis and show how they can be used to study social interactions in animals, including cetaceans, ungulates, primates, insects, and fish. Drawing from an array of techniques, the authors explore how network structures influence individual behavior and how this in turn influences, and is influenced by, behavior at the population level. Throughout, the authors use two software packages--UCINET and NETDRAW--to illustrate how these powerful analytical tools can be applied to different animal social organizations.

Animal behavior. --- Animal societies. --- Social behavior in animals. --- Models, Theoretical. --- Social Behavior. --- Behavior, Animal. --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Zoology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Social behavior in animals --- Animal behavior --- Animal societies --- Behavior

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Behavior, Animal --- Animal, Domestic --- Domestic animals --- Animal behavior --- Animaux domestiques --- Animaux --- Behavior --- Moeurs et comportement --- Animal domestique --- domestic animals --- Animal de zoo --- Zoo animals --- Animal de compagnie --- pet animals --- Animal sauvage --- wild animals --- Domestication --- Captivité --- captivity --- Comportement --- Behaviour --- Apprentissage --- Learning --- Animal --- animals --- Bien-être animal --- animal welfare --- Communication animale --- Communication between animals --- 594 --- diergedrag --- ethologie (lt) --- Animals, Domestic. --- Veterinary ethology --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Zoology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Behavior, Animal. --- Behavior, animal --- Bonding, human-pet --- Behavior therapy --- Human-Animal Bond. --- Behavior Therapy. --- Human-Animal Bond --- Behavior Therapy

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“Whereas bee colonies were once seen as perfect societies of selfless workers and drones ruled by a queen, Tautz presents them as a self-organized, complex adaptive system that he considers “a mammal in many bodies”. This comprehensive introduction to honeybee biology (originally published as Phänomen Honigbiene) explores such topics as how bees obtain and communicate information about flowers, “whole-animal gametes”, and the comb’s contributions to the sociophysiology of the colony. The author has been honored for making research accessible to the public, and his lucid text will reward lay readers, apiarists, students, and professional biologists alike. The book is profusely illustrated with Heilmann’s spectacular photos, which capture the full range of bee activities—including some, such as the living chains formed where combs are being built or repaired, whose function remains unknown.” (SCIENCE, Vol. 322, 19 December 2008) “With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs and an easy understandable text The Buzz about Bees tells the story of honeybees in a new perspective. Based on the latest data, notably from his own research group, Jürgen Tautz provides a wonderful insight into the realms of bees. In contrast to the view of bee colonies as perfect societies of selfless individuals ruled by a queen, Tautz introduces them as a “superorganism”, a self organizing and complex adaptive system based on a network of communication; a fascinating result of evolution – a mammal in several bodies. The entire range of astonishing bee activities is described. Remarkable action photographs never shown before present bees busy with cell cleaning, caring for the brood, serving in the queen’s court, visiting flowers, receiving nectar, producing honey, comb building, entrance guarding, heating and cooling. Spotlights include bees grooming, swarming, fighting, telephoning, sleeping and communicating by high-toned beeping, scents and dances.”.

Honeybee. --- Apis mellifera --- European honeybee --- Hive bee --- Honey bee --- Apis (Insects) --- Bees --- Bee culture --- Life sciences. --- Zoology. --- Animal behavior. --- Animal ecology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Agriculture. --- Popular Science in Nature and Environment. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Animal Ecology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Natural history --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Behavior --- Nature. --- Environment. --- Behavioral sciences. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Insect societies. --- Animal colonies. --- Colonial animals --- Coloniality (Zoology) --- Zooids --- Colonies (Biology) --- Invertebrates --- Reproduction, Asexual --- Insects, Social --- Social insects --- Animal societies --- Insects --- Behavior genetics. --- Ecology . --- Environment, general. --- Behavioral Genetics. --- Ecology. --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Behavior genetic analysis --- Behavioral genetics --- Human behavior genetics --- Psychogenetics --- Genetics --- Psychology