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Advances in the Study of Behavior
- 1st Edition, Volume 54 - April 27, 2022
- Editors: Jeffrey Podos, Susan Healy
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 0 9 4 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 0 9 5 - 0
Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 54 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Mobbing in animals: a thorough review… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 54 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Mobbing in animals: a thorough review and proposed future directions, Learned components of courtship: a focus on gestures, choreographies and construction abilities, Sexual selection in the true bugs, and Brain-behavior relationships of cognition in vertebrates: lessons from amphibians, Pre-Copulatory and Copulatory Courtship in Male-Dimorphic Arthropods.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Mobbing in animals: A thorough review and proposed future directions
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Quantification of mobbing and use in research
- 3: What is the function of mobbing?
- 4: Mobbing as a proxy for “cognition”
- 5: Conclusions and moving forward
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter Two: Learned components of courtship: A focus on postural displays, choreographies and construction abilities
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: What is learning in the context of courtship?
- 3: Evidence for usage learning of motor courtship patterns
- 4: Evidence for production learning of motor courtship patterns
- 5: Experience with own motor output: The role of non-social stimuli
- 6: Alternatives to learning
- 7: Mechanisms for usage, production and sensorimotor learning
- 8: Predictions and future directions
- 9: Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A: Appendix
- References
- Chapter Three: Brain-behavior relationships of cognition in vertebrates: Lessons from amphibians
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Amphibian brains
- 3: Cognition in the lab
- 4: Amphibians in nature
- 5: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Four: Pre-copulatory and copulatory courtship in male-dimorphic arthropods
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Systematic review
- 3: What do we currently know?
- 4: Processes underlying differences between male morphs in pre-copulatory courtship
- 5: Differences between morphs in copulatory courtship: What can we expect?
- 6: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- No. of pages: 196
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 54
- Published: April 27, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323990943
- eBook ISBN: 9780323990950
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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, USASH
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, UK