The outer body surface of animals is complex and appears in a variety of forms from moist or
slimy, dry, soft, and leathery to hard, horny, or bony. The skin is often equipped with devices …

The plus-maze, the light–dark box and the open-field are the main current tests of
unconditioned anxiety for mice and rats. Despite their disappointing achievements, they …

The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis
that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

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Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a
major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current …

Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a
fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our …

The ancient Greeks believed that the center of the universe was right where they lived. The
omphalos of the world-a large stone in the shape of a bee-hive-can still be found among the …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Knowledge of how animals manage their conflicts is critical for understanding the dynamics
of social systems. During the last two decades research on gregarious animals, especially …