Exploring animal behavior in laboratory and field an hypothesis-testing approach to the development, causation, function, and evolution of animal behavior

Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field is designed to provide a variety of exercises that engage students actively in all phases of scientific investigation, from formulating research questions through interpreting and presenting final results. It attempts to share the collective teaching...

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Main Authors Ploger, Bonnie J, Yasukawa, Ken
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Academic Press 2003
Boston, Mass Academic
Elsevier Science & Technology
Edition1
Subjects
Animal behavior
Animal behavior > Research > Methodology
Laboratory manuals
Methodology
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ISBN9780125583305
0125583303

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 20. Economic Decisions and Foraging Trade-offs in Chickadees -- Chapter 21. Seed Selection by Foraging Birds -- Chapter 22. Competitive Behavior of Birds at Feeders -- Section II: Avoiding Predators -- Chapter 23. Vigilance and the Group-size Effect: Observing Behavior in Humans -- Chapter 24. The Function of "Chat" Calls in Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos). Vocal Defense of Nestlings -- Chapter 25. Diving and Skating in Whirligig Beetles: Alternative Antipredator Responses -- Chapter 26. The Response of Tree Squirrels to Conspecific and Heterospecific Alarm Calls -- Section III: Agonistic Behavior -- Chapter 27. Competition for Breeding Resources by Burying Beetles -- Chapter 28. Learning to be Winners and Losers: Agonistic Behavior in Crayfish -- Section IV: Courtship and Parental Care -- Chapter 29. Costs and Benefits of Maternal Care in Earwigs -- Chapter 30. Vocal Behavior and Mating Tactics of the Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer): A Field Exercise in Animal Behavior -- Chapter 31. The Role of Multiple Male Characters in Mate Choice by Female Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) -- Chapter 32. Investigating Human Mate Choice Using the Want Ads -- Section V: Games -- Chapter 33. Demonstrating Strategies for Solving the Prisoner's Dilemma -- Chapter 34. Using Empirical Games to Teach Animal Behavior -- Section VI: Evolution -- Chapter 35. The Evolution of Behavior: A Phylogenetic Approach -- Appendices -- A. Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching -- B. Ethical Use of Human Subjects -- C. Introduction to Statistics -- Glossary -- Index
  • Front Cover -- Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Describing Behavior -- Chapter 1. Learning to Describe and Quantify Animal Behavior -- Chapter 2. Developing Operational Definitions and Measuring Interobserver Reliability Using House Crickets (Acheta domesticus) -- Part 2: Causation -- Chapter 3. Courtship, Mating, and Sex Pheromones in the Mealworm Beetle (Tenebrio molitor) -- Chapter 4. Courtship and Mate Attraction in Parasitic Wasps -- Chapter 5. Chemoreception in Lizards -- Chapter 6. Behavioral Thermoregulation in Field Populations of Amphibian Larvae -- Chapter 7. Temperature Dependence of the Electric Organ Discharge in Weakly Electric Fish -- Chapter 8. Observing and Analyzing Human Nonverbal Communication -- Chapter 9. Foraging Behavior of Ants, or Picnics: An Ant's-Eye View -- Chapter 10. Hummingbird Foraging Patterns: Experiments Using Artificial Flowers -- Chapter 11. Honey Bee Foraging Behavior -- Chapter 12. Individual Constancy to Color by Foraging Honey Bees -- Part 3: Development -- Chapter 13. Dog Training Laboratory: Applied Animal Behavior -- Chapter 14. Paternal Care and Its Effect on Maternal Behavior and Pup Survival and Development in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster) -- Chapter 15. The Effect of Prenatal Visual Stimulation on the Imprinting Responses of Domestic Chicks: An Examination of Sensitive Periods During Development -- Chapter 16. Development of Thermoregulation in Altricial Rodents -- Chapter 17. Aggregation and Kin Recognition in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus laevis) -- Part 4: Adaptation and Evolution -- Section I: Foraging -- Chapter 18. Diving Birds: A Field Study of Benthic and Piscivorous Foragers -- Chapter 19. Found A Peanut: Foraging Decisions by Squirrels