Table of Contents

1. Integrated Studies of Stickleback Behavior
Alison M. Bell
2. Friends and Enemies: How Social Dynamics Shape Communication and Song Learning in Song Sparrows
Michael D. Beecher and Çaglar Akçay
3. A Tale of Two Spiders: Investigating Communication in Two Unique Model Species Using Video Digitization and Playback
George Uetz and David Clark
4. Studying Lifelong Male-Male Partnerships in a Tropical Bird
David B. McDonald
5. Be Loved, Be Prey, Be Eaten
Rachel A. Page, Michael J. Ryan, and Ximena E. Bernal
6. Siblicide in Birds
Douglas W. Mock
7. Referential Signals: A Window into Animal Minds
Carolynn L. Smith and Christopher S. Evans
8. Cotton-top Tamarins: Research for Conservation and Understanding Human Behavior
Charles T. Snowdon
9. Avian Brood Parasitism: How to Spot a Foreign Egg in the Nest?
Mark E. Hauber and Jason Low
10. How Animals Remember Places and Find Their Way Around
David F. Sherry
11. Cognitive Repertoire, Cognitive Legacies, and Collective Reasoning: The Next Frontiers in Conservation Behavior
Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C
12. Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder: Potentially Adaptive Individual Differences in Human Mate Preferences
Lisa M. DeBruine, Benedict C. Jones, S. Craig Roberts, Anthony C. Little, and Christopher D. Watkins
Glossary
About the Editor and Contributors
About the Editorial Board
Index

Promotional Information

Discover why animals do what they do, based on their genes, physiologies, cultures, traditions, survival and mating advantages, and evolutionary histories—and find out how studying behavior in the animal world helps us understand human behavior.

About the Author

Ken Yasukawa, PhD, is Mead Family Professor of science and professor of biology at Beloit College, WI. He holds a doctorate in zoology from Indiana University and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University Field Research Center.

Reviews

A notable strength of the entire collection is that the contributors try to explain not just what is currently understood about their topic, but also why they are interested in it and how they go about asking and answering the questions they raise. This set should be part of all academic libraries. Highly recommended.
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