Social Behaviour in Animals: With Special Reference to Vertebrates

✍ Scribed by N. Tinbergen

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 181
• Series: Psychology Revivals
• Edition: Reprint
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Originally published in 1953, this is a classic study in animal behaviour, drawing on the author’s own extraordinary studies of insects, fish, and birds, as well as on the literature. The concept ‘community’ is taken in its widest sense to include all types of association of individuals, not only flocks and herds, but also the family, the pair, and even two animals engaged in combat. The author received the Nobel Prize for his work in this field in 1973.

✦ Table of Contents

I INTRODUCTION
Statement of the problems — The Herring Gull — The Three-spined Stickleback — The Grayling — Types of social co-operation

II MATING BEHAVIOUR
The functions of mating behaviour — Some instances of timing — Persuasion and appeasement — Orientation— Reproductive isolation — Conclusion

III FAMILY AND GROUP LIFE
Introduction — Family life — Group behaviour

IV FIGHTING
Reproductive fighting — The functions of reproductive fighting — The causes of fighting — The peck-order

V ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CO-OPERATION
Recapitulation — The actor’s behaviour — The behaviour of the reactor — Review of releasers — Conclusion

VI RELATIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT SPECIES
The release of reactions — The avoidance of release

VII THE GROWTH OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Differentiation and integration — The establishment of social ties — Further developments — Conclusion —
Regulation

VIII EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
The comparative method — Comparison of social systems — Comparison of releasers — Conclusion

IX SOME HINTS FOR RESEARCH IN ANIMAL SOCIOLOGY

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