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The most recent findings and research in the field of animal behavior.

Table of Contents

Sexual Selection and the Mating Behavior of Solitary Bees
The Function, Development, and Evolutionary Stability of Conventional Signals of Fighting Ability
Host-Parasite Interactions and the Evolution of Immune Defense
Behavioral Ecology of Oviposition-Site Selection in Herbivorous True Bugs
The World from a Dog’s Point of View: A Review and Synthesis of Dog Cognition Research
Demography and Social Evolution of Banded Mongooses
Intralocus Tactical Conflict and the Evolution of Alternative Reproductive Tactics

About the Author

Dr. H. Jane Brockmann is professor of zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests include ethology, behavioral ecology; the evolution and economics of behavior; nesting and mating behavior of horseshoe crabs and solitary wasps; and alternative strategies, conflict evolution of social behavior and sex ratios. Professor Tim Roper has a Personal Chair in Animal Behaviour at the University of Sussex. He has been Secretary of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, a Council Member of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology and both European Editor and Executive Editor of Animal Behaviour. His research interest is in the behavioral ecology of social mammals, especially badgers.

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"The series is designed for psychologists, zoologists, and psychiatrists, but will also be a valuable reference for workers in endocrinology, neurology, physiology, ethnology, and ecology."--BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS