Advances in the Study of Behavior

Chapter One. Why Is Social Behavior Rare in Reptiles? Lessons From Sleepy Lizards

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Sociality in Reptiles
• 3. The Biology of Sleepy Lizards
• 4. Monogamy
• 5. Social Networks
• 6. Discussion
• 7. Conclusions

Chapter Two. Behavioral Evidence of Felt Emotions: Approaches, Inferences, and Refinements

• 1. Introduction
• 2. What Is a Felt Emotion?
• 3. Spontaneous Responses to Stimuli
• 4. Changes in Response Following a Drug Treatment
• 5. Motivational Testing
• 6. Epistemological Issues

Chapter Three. Developmental Plasticity: Preparing for Life in a Complex World

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Approaches to the Study of Developmental Plasticity
• 3. When Should Information Be Sampled and When Does It Take Effect?
• 4. Integration of Environmental Information
• 5. Parent–Offspring Conflict
• 6. Fitness
• 7. Added Value From Adding Complexity?

Chapter Four. Covetable Corpses and Plastic Beetles—The Socioecological Behavior of Burying Beetles

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Burying Beetles Behavior and Ecology
• 3. What Socioecological Problems Do Burying Beetles Face?
• 4. Body Size Matters
• 5. Sex Roles in Parental Care and the Coevolution of Mating and Parental Care Behaviors
• 6. Sex Differences in the Plasticity of Behavior and Sexual Selection
• 7. Summary and Future Directions

Chapter Five. Mechanisms of Communication and Cognition in Chickadees: Explaining Nature in the Lab and Field

• 1. Introduction: Combining the Fields of Comparative Cognition and Behavioral Ecology
• 2. Natural History of Chickadees
• 3. Chickadee Acoustic Communication
• 4. Production and Perception of Chickadee Vocalizations: Investigating Communication Using Complementary Techniques
• 5. Summary of Conclusions and Future Directions

Chapter Six. Behavioral Adaptations to Invasive Species: Benefits, Costs, and Mechanisms of Change

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Types of Pressures Imposed by Invaders and Behavioral Responses
• 3. Ecological Significance of Behavioral Adaptations—Benefits and Costs
• 4. Selective Pressures Vary Across Life Stages
• 5. Mechanisms of Behavioral Change
• 6. Effects of Behavioral Adaptations on Other Traits
• 7. Conclusion

Chapter Seven. Scramble Competition Polygyny in Terrestrial Arthropods

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Mating Systems of Terrestrial Invertebrates
• 3. Scramble Competition in Terrestrial Invertebrates
• 4. How Does Female Ecology Influence Scramble Competition?
• 5. Male Traits Associated With Scramble Competition
• 6. Scramble Competition as an Alternative to Defense
• 7. Exploitation of Scrambling Males by Deceptive Predators, Parasitoids, and Plants
• 8. The Dangers of Scrambling Toward Cannibalistic Females
• 9. Conclusions
• Supplementary data

Chapter Eight. Communication in Animal Social Networks: A Missing Link?

• 1. Introduction
• 2. A Brief Overview of Animal Networks
• 3. How Signaling Reflects Social Networks
• 4. How Signaling Affects Proximity Networks
• 5. Consequences for Social Networks When Signals Do Not Get Their Message Across
• 6. Conclusions and Future Directions

Chapter Nine. The Self-organization of Social Complexity in Group-Living Animals: Lessons From the DomWorld Model

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Competitive Interactions in Groups
• 3. The Sexes
• 4. Dominance and Cognition
• 5. Personality and Dominance
• 6. Affiliative and Competitive Interactions in Groups
• 7. Self-organized Coalitions
• 8. Self-organized Patterns of Contra-support
• 9. Discussion and Conclusion
• Supplementary data