Animal Behaviour: An Evolutionary Perspective

✍ Scribed by Peter M. Kappeler

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 403
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

​This textbook presents all basic principles of animal behaviour in a clear and concise manner and illustrates them with up-to-date examples. Emphasis is placed on behavioural biology as an integrative discipline of organismic biology, focusing on the adaptive value of behaviours that facilitate resource access, predator avoidance and reproductive success and underlie parental care, all within a comprehensive presentation of social complexity. This new textbook provides a rich resource for students (and teachers) from a wide range of life science disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition
Contents
I: Basics
1: Behavioural Biology: Content and History
1.1 What Is Behaviour?
1.2 Why Study Animal Behaviour?
1.3 History of Behavioural Biology: A Brief Overview
1.4 Summary
Literature
2: Methods and Concepts of Behavioural Biology
2.1 Classical Methods
2.2 Modern Concepts
2.2.1 Cost-Benefit Analyses
2.2.2 Behavioural Strategies
2.2.3 Modelling
2.2.4 Comparisons Between Species
2.3 Summary
Literature
3: Behaviour, Evolution and Life Histories
3.1 Basics of Evolutionary Biology
3.2 Diversity of Life Histories
Box 3.1
3.2.1 Evolution of Life Histories
3.2.2 The Most Important Life History Traits
Box 3.2
3.3 Behaviour and Fitness: The Four Problems
3.4 Summary
Literature
II: Survival Strategies
4: Basic Functions and Behaviour
4.1 Homeostasis
4.1.1 Energy and Metabolism
4.1.2 Water Balance
4.1.3 Thermoregulation
Box 4.1
4.1.4 Stress
4.1.5 Parasites and Pathogens
4.1.6 Sleep
4.2 Allocation of Time and Energy
4.2.1 Strategies
4.2.2 Control of Energy
4.3 Summary
Literature
5: Orientation in Time and Space
5.1 Orientation in Time
5.1.1 Circadian Rhythms
Box 5.1
5.1.2 Tidal Rhythm
5.1.3 Lunar Rhythm
5.1.4 Circannual Rhythm
5.2 Orientation in Space
5.2.1 Kineses and Taxis
5.2.2 Navigation
Box 5.2
5.2.3 Migrations
5.3 Summary
Literature
6: Habitat and Food Selection
6.1 Habitat Selection
6.1.1 Mechanisms of Habitat Selection
Box 6.1
6.1.2 Consequences of Habitat Selection
6.1.3 Anthropogenic Influences
6.2 Food Selection
6.2.1 Optimal Foraging
6.2.2 Determinants of Feeding Behaviour
6.2.3 Foraging Strategies
Box 6.2
Box 6.3
6.3 Feeding Competition
6.3.1 Forms and Causes of Food Competition
6.3.2 Consequences of Food Competition
Box 6.4
Box 6.5
6.4 Animal-Plant Interactions
6.4.1 Evolution of Herbivory
6.4.2 Animal-Plant Mutualism
6.5 Summary
Literature
7: Predation
7.1 Evolutionary Arms Races
7.2 Predator Strategies
Box 7.1
7.3 Prey Strategies
Box 7.2
Box 7.3
7.4 Summary
Literature
III: Reproduction
8: Sexual Selection: Evolutionary Foundations
8.1 Sexual and Natural Selection
8.2 Life History and Reproductive Biology
8.2.1 Diversity of Reproductive Strategies
8.2.2 Sex Determination
8.3 Sex Roles
8.4 Sexual Conflict
8.5 Sex Ratios
8.6 Summary
Literature
9: Intrasexual Selection: How Males Compete
9.1 Overview
9.2 Strategies and Tactics
Box 9.1
9.3 Pre-copulatory Competition
9.3.1 Mate Searching
9.3.2 Mate Defence
9.3.3 Size and Weapons
9.3.4 Ornaments
9.3.5 Competition and Dominance
Box 9.2
9.4 Post-copulatory Competition
Box 9.3
9.4.1 Sperm Competition
9.5 Post-conceptual Competition
9.6 Male Mate Choice
9.7 Summary
Literature
10: Intersexual Selection: How Females Choose
10.1 Species Recognition
Box 10.1
10.2 Incest Avoidance
Box 10.2
10.3 Mechanisms of Mate Choice
10.3.1 Preference Functions
10.3.2 Sampling Tactics
10.3.3 Choosiness
10.4 Direct Benefits of Mate Choice
Box 10.3
10.5 Indirect Benefits of Mate Choice
10.5.1 Sexy Sons Through the Fisher Process
10.5.2 Better Offspring Through Good Genes
10.5.3 Genetic Compatibility
Box 10.4
Box 10.5
10.6 Polyandry
Box 10.6
10.7 Competition Among Females
Box 10.7
10.8 Summary
Literature
IV: Parental Care and Infant Development
11: Parental Care
11.1 Parental Care and Life History
11.2 Who Cares? Sex-Specific Parental Care
11.3 Parental Care, Investment and Conflict
11.3.1 Sexual Conflict over Parental Investment
11.3.2 Parent-Offspring Conflict
11.3.3 Sibling Conflict
11.3.4 Brood Parasitism
Box 11.1
Box 11.2
11.4 Parental Care and Cooperation
11.4.1 Eusociality and Reproductive Altruism
11.4.2 Helper Systems
11.5 Summary
Literature
12: Development and Control of Behaviour
12.1 Behavioural Development
12.2 Prenatal Development
12.2.1 Genes and Behaviour
Box 12.1
Box 12.2
12.2.2 Sex and Behaviour
12.2.3 Genomic Imprinting
12.2.4 Parental Effects
12.3 Postnatal Development
12.3.1 Life History Traits
12.3.2 Parental Investment
12.3.3 Ecological Conditions
12.3.4 Gut Microbiome and Behaviour
12.3.5 Learning
12.3.6 Senescence and Behaviour
Box 12.3
12.4 Summary
Literature
V: Social Evolution
13: Social Systems
13.1 Social Complexity
13.1.1 Components of Social Systems
13.1.2 Evolution of Social Complexity
13.2 Social Organisation
13.2.1 Socio-Ecology
13.2.2 Forms of Organisation
13.2.3 Dispersal and Philopatry
13.3 Mating Systems
13.3.1 Diversity of Mating Systems
13.3.2 Consequences
13.4 Summary
Literature
14: Social Structure
14.1 Communication
14.1.1 Signals and Modalities
14.1.2 Honesty
14.1.3 Meaning
14.1.4 Signal Function
14.2 Coordination
14.3 Relationships and Networks
14.4 Competition
14.4.1 Competition and Social Structure
14.4.2 Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution
14.5 Cooperation
Box 14.1
14.6 Cognition
14.6.1 Ecological Cognition
14.6.2 Social Cognition
14.6.3 Evolution of Cognition
14.7 Culture
14.8 Summary
Literature
Subject Index
Animal Index