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Chimpanzee politics : power and sex among apes / by De Waal, Frans,1948-2024.(CARDINAL)323198;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.
Subjects: Chimpanzees; Social behavior in animals.; Sexual behavior in animals.; Mammals;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The evolution of culture in animals / by Bonner, John Tyler.(CARDINAL)325574;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index.
Subjects: Social behavior in animals.; Sociobiology.; Culture.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Monkeytalk : inside the worlds and minds of primates / by Fischer, Julia,1966-author.; Henry, Frederick B.,Jr.translator.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index.Monkey see, monkey do-or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates-their sociality, their intelligence, their communication-really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer reveals, the human bias inherent in this oft-uttered adage is our loss, for it is only through the study of our primate brethren that we may begin to understand ourselves. An eye-opening blend of storytelling, memoir, and science, Monkeytalk takes us into the field and the world's primate labs to investigate the intricacies of primate social mores through the lens of communication. After first detailing the social interactions of key species from her fieldwork-from baby-wielding male Barbary macaques, who use infants as social accessories in a variety of interactions, to aggression among the chacma baboons of southern Africa and male-male tolerance among the Guinea baboons of Senegal-Fischer explores the role of social living in the rise of primate intelligence and communication, ultimately asking what the ways in which other primates communicate can teach us about the evolution of human language. Funny and fascinating, Fischer's tale roams from a dinner in the field shared with lionesses to insights gleaned from Rico, a border collie with an astonishing vocabulary, but its message is clear: it is humans who are the evolutionary mimics. The primate heritage visible in our species is far more striking than the reverse, and it is the monkeys who deserve to be seen. "The social life of macaques and baboons is a magnificent opera," Fischer writes. "Permit me now to raise the curtain on it."
Subjects: Primates; Social behavior in animals.; Cognition in animals.; Learning in animals.;
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Cheating monkeys and citizen bees : the nature of cooperation in animals and humans / by Dugatkin, Lee Alan,1962-(CARDINAL)304093;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-199) and index.
Subjects: Social behavior in animals.; Animal behavior; Cooperativeness.;
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The evolution of social wasps / by Hunt, James H.(CARDINAL)817907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-248) and index.Foreword / by Raghavendra Gadagkar -- Plant feeders and parasitoids -- Pollen wasps, potter wasps, and hover wasps -- Paper wasps and vespines -- The historical scenario of social evolution -- Dynamics -- Individuals -- Colonies -- Populations -- The dynamic scenario of social evolution -- Paradigm lost and found? -- Kin selection -- Behavioral ecology -- A postmodern synthesis."Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery. In The Evolution of Social Wasps, James H. Hunt examines social behavior in a single lineage of insects, wasps of the family Vespidae. He presents empirical knowledge of social wasps from two approaches, one that focuses on phylogeny and life history and one that focuses on individual ontogeny, colony development, and population dynamics. He also provides an extensive summary of the existing literature while demonstrating how it can be clouded by theory. Hunt's fresh approach to the conflicting literature on sociality highlights how oft repeated models can become fixed in the thinking of the scientific community. Instead, Hunt presents a mechanistic scenario for the evolution of sociality in wasps that changes our perspective on kin selection, the paradigm that has dominated thinking about social evolution since the 1970s. This innovative new model integrates life history, nutrition, fitness and ecology in which social insect biologists will find a rich storehouse of ideas and information, and behavioral ecologists will find a bracing challenge to long accepted models. Engagingly written, bold, and provocative, The Evolution of Social Wasps marks a milestone in our understanding of one of lifes major evolutionary transitions - the origin of social behavior."--PUBLISHER.
Subjects: Vespidae; Social behavior in animals.;
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Dolphin societies : discoveries and puzzles / by Pryor, Karen,1932-(CARDINAL)329927; Norris, Kenneth S.(Kenneth Stafford)(CARDINAL)320634;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An overview of the changes in the role of a female pilot whale with age / Helene Marsh and Toshio Kasuya -- Some thoughts on grandmothers / Kenneth S. Norris and Karen Pryor -- Looking at captive dolphins / Kenneth S. Norris -- Changes in aggressive and sexual behavior between two male bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in a captive colony / Jan Östman -- Use of a telemetry device to identify which dolphin produces a sound / Peter Tyack -- The domestic dolphin / Karen Pryor -- What the dolphin knows, or might know, in its natural world / Louis M. Herman -- Dolphin psychophysics : concepts for the study of dolphin echolocation / Patrick W.B. Moore -- Dolphin politics and dolphin science / Karen Pryor and Kenneth S. Norris.Looking at wild dolphin schools / Kenneth S. Norris -- Herd structure, hunting, and play : bottlenose dolphins in the Black Sea / edited by V.M. Bel'kovich -- Dolphin movement patterns : information from radio and theodolite tracking studies / Bernd Würsig, Frank Cipriano, and Melany Würsig -- The feeding ecology of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Pacific Northwest / Frederic L. Felleman, James R. Heimlich-Boran, and Richard W. Osborne -- The interactions between killer whales and boats in Johnstone Strait, B.C. / Susan Kruse -- Social structure in spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in the Tuna Purse Seine Fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific / Karen Pryor and Ingrid Kang Shallenberger -- The role of long-term study in understanding the social structure of a bottlenose dolphin community / Randall S. Wells -- Using aerial photogrammetry to study dolphin school structure / Michael D. Scott and Wayne L. Perryman -- Mortal remains : studying dead animals / Karen Pryor -- Some new and potential uses of dental layers in studying delphinid populations / Albert C. Myrick, Jr.
Subjects: Dolphins; Social behavior in animals.;
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Power in the wild : the subtle and not-so-subtle ways animals strive for control over others / by Dugatkin, Lee Alan,1962-author.(CARDINAL)304093;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Hermit crabs might not be the first example that comes to mind when thinking about power in animal relationships, but they are representative of the costs, benefits, assessment, and struggles that animal behaviorist Lee Dugatkin explains in Power in the Wild. Besides learning that researchers can evict all crabs from their shells by tickling their abdomens with paintbrushes, readers discover that attacker crabs can assess both the quality of shells and the ability of competitors to hold onto them- and both attacker and attacked make decisions about how much energy to expend holding onto a good shell. If the attacker looks tough, a target might just give up and flee. That the models for these behaviors mirror game theory for nuclear deterrence is all the more interesting. Dugatkin makes clear that this is not a book about what non-human animal power dynamics can teach us about ourselves, but it is an overview of power in the animal world generally- from the costs of pursuing power, to the role of gender (including a description of a species of fish that changes gender depending on its rank), to new findings on observer animals that watch and assess greater community power relationships without participating in power struggles themselves"--
Subjects: Aggressive behavior in animals.; Decision making in animals.; Social behavior in animals.; Social hierarchy in animals.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Unlikely friendships : 47 remarkable stories from the animal kingdom / by Holland, Jennifer S.(CARDINAL)597085;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-209).Booklist starredBooklist starred, August 2011Presents a collection of stories about animals who have forged unlikely, abiding bonds with other animals of different species, from Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten to Owen the hippo and the tortoise Mzee.AdultAdult
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Social behavior in animals; Animal behavior; Friendship; Social behavior in animals.; Animal behavior.; Friendships.;
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Some behavior patterns of platyrrhine monkeys: II. Saguinus geoffroyi and some other tamarins by Moynihan, M.(CARDINAL)287398;
Bibliography: pages 76-77.
Subjects: Geoffroy's tamarin; Monkeys; Social behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The common tern : its breeding biology and social behavior / by Burger, Joanna.(CARDINAL)325682; Gochfeld, Michael.(CARDINAL)329157;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-401) and indexes.
Subjects: Common tern; Common tern; Social behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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