Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Editor-in-Chief:

Michael Breed, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, U.S.A
Janice Moore, Biology Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A

The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior has engaged-with great success-the efforts of many of the best behavioral biologists of the 21st century. Section editors drawn from the most accomplished behavioral scientists of their generation have enrolled an international cast of highly respected thinkers and writers-all of whom have taken great care and joy in illuminating every imaginable corner of animal behavior.

This comprehensive work covers not only the usual topics such as communication, learning, sexual selection, navigation, and the history of the field, but also emerging topics in cognition, animal welfare, conservation, and applications of animal behavior. The large section on animal cognition brings together many of the world's experts on the subject to provide a comprehensive overview of this rapidly developing area. Chapters relating to animal welfare give a full view of behavioral interactions of humans with companion animals, farm animals, and animals in the wild. The key role of animal behavior in conservation biology receives broad attention, including chapters on topics such as the effects of noise pollution, captive breeding, and how the behavioral effects of parasites interacts with conservation issues. Animal behavior in environmental biology is highlighted in chapters on the effects of endocrine disruptors on behavior and a large number of chapters on key species, such as wolves, chimpanzees, hyenas and sharks.

Clear, accessible writing complements a wealth of information for undergraduate college students about the essential concepts of animal behavior and the application of those concepts across the field. In-depth coverage of concepts, methods, and exemplar organisms serves the needs of graduate students and professionals in the field.

From the use of behavior in assessing the welfare of pigs to the social behavior of insects, from animal empathy to bat brains, this authoritative reference, with its in-depth introductory articles, rich array of illustrations, interactive cross-referenced links, and numerous suggested readings, can guide the student or the professional to an expanded appreciation of the far-flung world of animal behavior. An invaluable tool for teaching and a source of enrichment and detail for any topic covered in an animal behavior course, the Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior is the definitive reference work in its field and will be for years to come.

Audience
Advanced undergraduates, graduate students and professionals studying or working in animal behavior, behavioral ecology, conservation biology, behavioral biology, ethology, and related disciplines.

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Published: July 2010

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-08-045333-0

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This beautifully put together three-volume encyclopedia comprises 300-plus entries on a diverse range of topics in the contemporary study of animal behavior. Entries run the gamut from topic-focused (e.g., "Aggression and Territoriality," "Visual Signals") to those treating the behavior of a particular species or taxonomic group (e.g., "Bowerbirds," "Zebrafish"). The set also covers applied research, methodological issues, and historical topics, along with emerging areas of research such as animal welfare and the role of behavior in conservation. Most entries are five to eight pages long, and each concludes with a helpful list of recommendations for further reading and, in some cases, relevant Web sites. Breed and Moore have assembled an outstanding array of contributors, including many recognized experts in the field. The writing is crisp, clear, and to the point. Numerous tables and color figures add to the value of the text, and a lengthy glossary is included at the end of !
each volume. Although the sheer range of entries and the overlap among them could be a bit confusing, a "Subject Classification Index" located at the front of each volume organizes relevant entries under major subject headings. The editors state that their primary audience is advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals looking for an overview of topics in animal behavior, and they have succeeded wonderfully in producing an indispensable reference work for this audience. Those who study animal behavior or teach in this field will want these volumes on their shelf. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. -- S. C. Baker, James Madison University, CHOICE
Winner of the PROSE Award! The Association of American Publishers award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence/Multivolume Reference/Science
"The study of animal behavior is fascinating for many reasons, not the least of which is the light it may shine on human action. Here editors Breed (Univ. of Colorado) and Moore (Colorado State Univ.) present more than 300 articles on aspects of animal behavior, the work of 400 contributors from around the world. Each signed article begins with an introduction, then addresses the topic in several pages of detail, including supporting figures. Each article ends with a list of books, journal articles, and websites for further reading, some as recent as 2009. Articles may be based on a broad topic ("bird migration"), a more specific topic ("mating interference due to introduction of exotic species"), a specific animal ("spotted hyenas"), or a person ("Niko Tinbergen"). As articles are arranged alphabetically, the astute reader will consult the subject classification index to find all relevant articles. There are, for example, 29 articles classified under Landmark Studies, and five under Networks-Social. Cross-references and a general index are also provided, as well as a glossary. Breed and Moore contributed to Greenwood Presss 2004 work by the same name, edited by Marc Bekoff (also Univ. of Colorado). Bekoff called that earlier work unrivaled at the time. Consider the current title a worthy successor, geared perhaps toward a slightly older, more educated reader. BOTTOM LINE Highly recommended for academic and public libraries, including those holding the earlier work of the same title." -Teresa R. Faust, Vermont Dept. of Libs., Berlin in LIBRARY JOURNAL
"Every year, Choice subject editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior appearing annually in Choices January issue, this prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from the academic library community. The 2011 feature includes 629 titles in 54 disciplines and subsections."--CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

Acoustic Communication in Insects: Neuroethology
Acoustic Signals
Active Electroreception: Vertebrates
Adaptive Landscapes and Optimality
Aggression and Territoriality
Agonistic Signals
Alarm Calls in Birds and Mammals
Alex: A Study in Avian Cognition
Amphibians: Orientation and Migration
Animal Arithmetic
Animal Behavior: Antiquity to the Sixteenth Century
Animal Behavior: The Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Animal Innovation
Animal Psychology: An Historical Perspective
Animal Training
Ant, Bee and Wasp Social Evolution
Anthropogenic Noise: Impacts on Animals
Anthropogenic Noise: Implications for Conservation
Antipredator Benefits from Heterospecifics
Apes: Social Learning
Aplysia
Aquatic Invertebrate Endocrine Disruption
Avian Social Learning
Avoidance of Parasites
Barn Swallows: Sexual and Social Behavior
Bat Migration
Bat Neuroethology
Batemans Principles: Original Experiment and Modern Data For and Against
Bats: Orientation, Navigation and Homing
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Betta Splendens
Beyond Fever: Comparative Perspectives on Sickness Behavior
Bird Migration
Body Size and Sexual Dimorphism
Boobies
Bowerbirds
Caching
Caste Determination in Arthropods
Caste in Social Insects: Genetic Influences Over Caste Determination
Categories and Concepts: Language-Related Competences in Non-Linguistic Species
Chimpanzees
Circadian and Circannual Rhythms and Hormones
Cockroaches
Co-Evolution of Predators and Prey
Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees
Collective Intelligence
Colony Founding in Social Insects
Communication and Hormones
Communication Networks
Communication: An Overview
Comparative Animal Behavior - 1920-1973
Compensation in Reproduction
Conflict Resolution
Consensus Decisions
Conservation and Animal Behavior
Conservation and Anti-Predator Behavior
Conservation and Behavior: Introduction
Conservation Behavior and Endocrinology
Conservation, Behavior, Parasites and Invasive Species
Cooperation and Sociality
Cost and Benefit Analysis
Costs of Learning
Crabs and Their Visual World
Crustacean Social Evolution
Cryptic Female Choice
Cultural Inheritance of Signals
Culture
Dance Language
Darwin and Animal Behavior
Deception: Competition by Misleading Behavior
Decision Making
Decision Making and Learning: The Peak Shift Behavioral Response
Defensive Avoidance
Defensive Chemicals
Defensive Coloration
Defensive Morphology
Development, Evolution and Behavior
Developmental Plasticity
Dictyostelium, the Social Amoeba
Differential Allocation
Digestion and Foraging
Disease Transmission and Networks
Disease, Behavior and Welfare
Distributed Cognition
Division of Labor
Dolphin Signature Whistles
Domestic Dogs
Dominance Relationships, Dominance Hierarchies and Rankings
Drosophila Behavior Genetics
Ecology of Fear
Economic Escape
Ectoparasite Behavior
Electrical Signals
Electroreception in Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Emotion and Social Cognition in Primates
Empathy: Levels of
Empirical Studies of Predator and Prey Behavior
Endocrinology and Behavior: Methods
Ethograms, Activity Profiles and Energy Budgets
Ethology in Europe
European Ethology
Evolution and Phylogeny of Communication
Evolution of Parasite-Induced Behavioral Alterations
Evolution: Fundamentals
Experiment, Observation, and Modeling in the Lab and Field
Experimental Approaches to Hormones and Behavior: Invertebrates
Experimental Design: Basic Concepts
Female Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Non- Mammalian Vertebrates
Field Techniques in Hormones and Behavior
Fight or Flight Responses
Fish Migration
Fish Social Learning
Flexible Mate Choice
Food Intake: Behavioral Endocrinology
Food Signals
Foraging Modes
Forced or Aggressively Coerced Copulation
Future of Animal Behavior: Predicting Trends
Game Theory
Games Played by Predators and Prey
Genes and Genomic Searches
Group Living
Group Movement
Habitat Imprinting
Habitat Selection
William Donald Hamilton (indexed under H)
Hearing in Insects
Hearing: Vertebrates
Helpers and Reproductive Behavior in Birds and Mammals
Herring Gulls
Hibernation, Daily Torpor and Estivation in Mammals and Birds: Behavioral Aspects
Honest Signaling
Honeybees
Hormones and Behavior: Basic Concepts
Hormones and Breeding Strategies, Sex Reversal, Brood Parasites, Parthenogenesis
Horses: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
Hunger and Satiety
Imitation: Cognitive Implications
Immune Systems and Sickness Behavior
Infanticide
Information Content and Signals
Insect Flight and Walking: Neuroethological Basis
Insect Migration
Insect Navigation
Insect Social Learning
Integration of Proximate and Ultimate Causes
Intermediate Host Behavior
Internal Energy Storage
Interspecific Communication
Intertemporal Choice
Invertebrate Hormones and Behavior
Invertebrates: the Inside Story of Post-Insemination, Pre-Fertilization Reproductive Interactions
Irruptive Migration
Isolating Mechanisms and Speciation
Kin Recognition and Genetics
Kin Selection and Relatedness
Kleptoparasitism and Cannibalism
Learning and Conservation
Leech Behavioral Choice: Neuroethology
Levels of Selection
Life Histories and Network Function
Life Histories and Predation Risk
Locusts
Konrad Lorenz (indexed under L)
Magnetic Compasses in Insects
Magnetic Orientation in Migratory Songbirds
Magnetoreception
Male Ornaments and Habitat Deterioration
Male Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Non- Mammalian Vertebrates
Mammalian Female Sexual Behavior and Hormones
Mammalian Social Learning: Non-Primates
Maps and Compasses
Marine Invertebrates: Genetics of Colony Recognition
Mate Choice and Learning
Mate Choice in Males and Females
Maternal Effects on Behavior
Mating Interference Due to Introduction of Exotic Species
Mating Signals
Measurement Error and Reliability
Memory, Learning, Hormones and Behavior
Mental Time Travel: Can Animals Recall the Past and Plan for the Future?
Metacognition and Metamemory in Non-Human Animals
Microevolution and Macroevolution in Behavior
Migration and Behavioral Endocrinology
Migratory Connectivity
Molt in Birds and Mammals: Hormones and Behavior
Monkeys and prosimians: Social learning
Monogamy and Extra-Pair Parentage
Morality and Evolution
Motivation and Signals
Multimodal Signaling
Naked Mole Rats: Their Extraordinary Sensory World
Nasonia Wasp Behavior Genetics
Nematode Learning and Memory: Neuroethology
Nervous System: Evolution in Relation to Behavior
Nest Site Choice in Social Insects
Neural Control of Sexual Behavior
Neuroethology: Methods
Neuroethology: What is it?
Non-Elemental Learning in Invertebrates
Norway Rats
Octopus
Olfactory Signals
Ontogenetic Effects of Captive Breeding
Optimal Foraging and Plant-Pollinator Co-Evolution
Optimal Foraging Theory: Introduction
Orthopteran Behavioral Genetics
Pair-Bonding, Mating Systems and Hormones
Parasite-Induced Behavioral Change: Mechanisms
Parasite-Modified Vector Behavior
Parasites and Insects: Aspects of Social Behavior
Parasites and Sexual Selection
Parasitoid Wasps: Neuroethology
Parasitoids
Parental Behavior and Hormones in Mammals
Parental Behavior and Hormones in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
Parent-offspring Signaling
Parmecium Behavioral Genetics
Patch Exploitation
Pets: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
Pheidole: Sociobiology of a Highly Diverse Genus
Phylogenetic Inference and the Evolution of Behavior
Pigeon Homing as a Model Case of Goal-Oriented Navigation
Pigeons
Pigs: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
Play
Playbacks in Behavioral Experiments
Poultry: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
Predator Avoidance: Mechanisms
Predator Evasion
Predator's Perspective on Predator-Prey Interactions
Problem-Solving in Tool-Using and Non-Tool-Using Animals
Propagule Behavior and Parasite Transmission
Punishment
Queen-Queen Conflict in Eusocial Insect Colonies
Queen-Worker Conflicts Over Colony Sex Ratio
Rational Choice Behavior: Definitions and Evidence
Recognition Systems in the Social Insects
Referential Signaling
Remote-Sensing of Behavior
Reproductive Behavior and Parasites: Invertebrates
Reproductive Behavior and Parasites: Vertebrates
Reproductive Skew
Reproductive Skew, Cooperative Breeding, and Eusociality in Vertebrates: Hormones
Reproductive Success
Rhesus Macaques
Risk Allocation in Anti-Predator Behavior
Risk-Taking in Self-Defense
Robot Behavior
Robotics in the Study of Animal Behavior
Sea Turtles: Navigation and Orientation
Seasonality: Hormones and Behavior
Seed Dispersal and Conservation
Self-Medication: Passive Prevention and Active Treatment
Sentience
Sequence Analysis and Transition Models
Sex Allocation, Sex Ratios and Reproduction
Sex and Social Evolution
Sex Change in Reef Fishes: Behavior and Physiology
Sex Changing Organisms and Reproductive Behavior
Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Male Mammals
Sexual Selection and Speciation
Sharks
Signal Parasites
Slaughter Plants: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
Sleep and Hormones
Smell: Vertebrates
Social Behavior and Parasites
Social Cognition and Theory of Mind
Social Evolution in 'Other' Insects and Arachnids
Social Information Use
Social Insects: Behavioral Genetics
Social Learning: Theory
Social Recognition
Social Selection, Sexual Selection, and Sexual Conflict
Sociogenomics
Sound Localization: Neuroethology
Sound Production: Vertebrates
Spatial Memory
Spatial Orientation and Time: Methods
Specialization
Sperm Competition
Spiders: Social Evolution
Spotted Hyenas
Stress, Health and Social Behavior
Subsociality and the Evolution of Eusociality
Swordtails and Platyfishes
Syntactically Complex Vocal Systems
Tadpole Behavior and Metamorphosis
Taste: Invertebrates
Taste: Vertebrates
Termites: Social Evolution
Thermoreception: Invertebrates
Thermoreception: Vertebrates
Threespine Stickleback
Time: What Animals Know
Niko Tinbergen
Trade-Offs in Anti-Predator Behavior
Tribolium
Túngara Frog: A Model for Sexual Selection and Communication
Turtles: Freshwater
Unicolonial Ants: Loss of Colony Identity
Vertebrate Endocrine Disruption
Vertical Migration of Aquatic Animals
Vibration Perception: Vertebrates
Vibrational Communication
Vigilance and Models of Behavior
Vision: Invertebrates
Vision: Vertebrates
Visual Signals
Vocal Learning
Vocal-Acoustic Communication in Fishes: Neuroethology
Water and Salt Intake in Vertebrates: Endocrine and Behavioral Regulation
Welfare of Animals: Behavior as a Basis for Decisions
Welfare of Animals: Introduction
White-Crowned Sparrow
Wintering Strategies
Wintering Strategies, Moult and Behavior
Wolves
Worker - Worker Conflict and Worker Policing
Zebra Finches
Zebrafish

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