Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Variability in Foraging Patterns 3. Food Selection 4. Habitat Selection 5. Avoiding Predation 6. Behavioral Thermoregulation and Maintenance 7. Reproduction 8. Competition, Especially for Mates 9. Territoriality 10. Spacing Patterns: Dominance Hierarchies 11. Competition Between Species 12. Social Groups 13. Future Directions References Index

About the Author

Douglass H. Morse is Hermon Carey Bumpus Professor of Biology, Brown University.

Reviews

Morse, I believe, is the first in two decades to have provided an integrated treatment of the ecological problems of interest to ethologists which at the same time meets the criteria of scholarly thoroughness and accuracy... An essential volume for ecologists! -- P. H. Klopfer * Ecology *
This synthesis and integration of behavioral ecology into a unified framework will, in my opinion, prove extremely valuable to many evolutionary and ecologically oriented biologists, as well as to any serious student of animal biology. The clear, uncomplicated style of the writing will assure its accessibility to any educated reader. -- Richard T. Holmes, Dartmouth College