Advances in the Study of Behavior
- 1st Edition, Volume 56 - May 22, 2024
- Editors: Susan Healy, Jeffrey Podos
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 4 4 0 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 4 4 1 - 9
Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 56 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of interesting topics, includ… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 56 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of interesting topics, including Playing to the crowd: using Drosophila to dissect mechanisms underlying plastic male strategies in sperm competition games, Social breeding and its challenges: A case study on village weaverbirds, Inbreeding depression and social interactions, Sleeping beauties? Copulatory quiescence in arachnid females, and more.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Wall-following behavior: Its ultimate and proximate explanations, prevalence, and implications
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Anxiety, stress, and predation-avoidance behavior
- 3 Exploration
- 4 Favorable biotic and abiotic conditions
- 5 The test arena’s size, shape, and structure
- 6 Development, aging, carryover effects, and parental effects
- 7 Sex, population, and other intraspecific and interspecific differences
- 8 Behavioral repeatability and correlations with other behaviors
- 9 Future research on wall-following behavior
- 10 Concluding comments
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Two: Quiet but not forgotten: Insights into adaptive evolution and behavior from 20 years of (mostly) silent Hawaiian crickets
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Behavior’s role in adaptive evolution
- 3 Behavior links signal, form, and function
- 4 Rapid convergent adaptation: Causes and consequences
- 5 Synthesis: The value of long-term insect studies in nature
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Further readings
- Chapter Three: Patterns of host specificity in interactions involving behavioral manipulation of spiders by Darwin wasps
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 3 State-of-art and trends in studies of polysphinctine-host interactions
- 4 Patterns of host specificity
- 5 Parasitoid-spider networks
- 6 Factors influencing specificity patterns
- 7 Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter Four: Orb web construction in a new generation of behavioral analysis: A user’s guide
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A brief introduction to orb construction behavior
- 3 Additional decisions during sticky spiral construction
- 4 Uniformity of cues used in different families of orb weavers
- 5 Learning and maturation
- 6 Coordination and independence of flexible adjustments of web variables
- 7 Do spiders have expectations regarding the sites and orientations of web lines
- 8 Conclusion: The promise of orbs for new directions of behavioral research
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Further Reading
- No. of pages: 362
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 56
- Published: May 22, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443294402
- eBook ISBN: 9780443294419
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Susan Healy
Susan Healy have several avenues of research currently underway all stemming from an interest in adaptation and cognition. She investigate cognitive ablities in non-model organisms such as hummingbirds, zebra finches and bowerbirds and she is especially interested in 'animal cognition in the wild' and test cognitive abilities of animals (nearly always birds) in as natural conditions as possible. She currently have two major projects: 1) cognitive abilities of rufous hummingbirds (in collaboration with Andy Hurly, U. of Lethbridge, Canada) and 2) the cognitive basis of nest building in birds (in collaboration with Simone Meddle, U. of Edinburgh, UK). She is also interested in explanations for variation in brain size (in collaboration with Candy Rowe, U. of Newcastle, UK)
Affiliations and expertise
School of Biology, Harold Mitchell Building, University of St Andrews, UKJP
Jeffrey Podos
Jeff Podos is a Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He conducted his dissertation research under the guidance of Stephen Nowicki and Susan Peters, in the Department of Zoology at Duke University (PhD 1996). He then held a post-doctoral fellowship at University of Arizona, Tucson, in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, where he studied with Daniel Papaj. He also held a post-doctoral position at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia in Manaus, Brazil. In 2000 he took a position in the Biology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and since 2011 has served as director of the UMass Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. His research program focuses on topics in animal communication, with particular emphasis on signal performance, development, and learning in songbirds. In addition to work on North American sparrows, he has a long-standing research project on Darwin’s finches of the Galapagos Islands, addressing the interface of behavior, ecology, in species divergence. Additional collaborative research projects are addressing topics in Neotropical ornithology and bioacoustics. He has served editorship positions with three other journals: Animal Behaviour, Bird Behavior, and Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, and is currently President-Elect of the Animal Behavior Society.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USARead Advances in the Study of Behavior on ScienceDirect