The Living Elephants

Raman Sukumar

The Living Elephants is the authoritative resource for information on both Asian and African elephants. From the ancient origins of the proboscideans to the present-day crisis of the living elephants, this volume synthesizes the behavior, ecology and conservation of...

Population Cycles

Alan Berryman

For over sixty years, understanding the causes of multiannual cycles in animal populations has been a central issue in ecology. This book brings together ten of the leaders in this field to examine the major hypotheses and recent evidence in the field, and to establish...

Natural Selection and Social Theory

Robert Trivers

Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of reciprocal...

Signalers and Receivers

Michael D. Greenfield

The Handicap Principle

Na'ama Ely , Melvin Patrick Ely , Amotz Zahavi , Avishag Zahavi

Ever since Darwin, animal behavior has intrigued and perplexed human observers. The elaborate mating rituals, lavish decorative displays, complex songs, calls, dances and many other forms of animal signaling raise fascinating questions. To what degree can animals...

The Handicap Principle

Na'ama Ely , Melvin Patrick Ely , Amotz Zahavi , Avishag Zahavi

Ever since Darwin, animal behavior has intrigued and perplexed human observers. The elaborate mating rituals, lavish decorative displays, complex songs, calls, dances and many other forms of animal signaling raise fascinating questions. To what degree can animals...

Geographic Variation in Behavior

John A. Endler , Susan A. Foster

Studies of animal behavior often assume that all members of a species exhibit the same behavior. Geographic Variation in Behavior shows that, on the contrary, there is substantional variation within species across a wide range of taxa. Including work from pioneers in...

Progress and Prospects in Evolutionary Biology

Jeffrey R. Powell

This book focuses on drosophila as an especially useful model organism for exploring questions of evolutionary biology in the full range of evolutionary studies: population genetics, ecology, ecological genetics, speciation, phylogenetics, genome evolution, molecular...

Cooperation among Animals

Lee Alan Dugatkin

Despite the depiction of nature "red in tooth and claw," cooperation is actually widespread in the animal kingdom. Various types of cooperative behaviors have been documented in everything from insects to primates, and in every imaginable ecological scenario. Yet why...

Understanding and Controlling the German Cockroach

John M. Owens , Donald A. Reierson , Michael K. Rust

The German cockroach is considered to be the most resilient and ecologically important insect pest found in homes, apartments, and commercial facilities in the United States and across the world. This book expertly provides up-to-the-minute information about the...

Ecological Dynamics of Tick-Borne Zoonoses

Thomas N. Mather , Daniel E. Sonenshine

The ecological relationships found to exist between tick vectors and pathogens in their zootic cycle can profoundly influence patterns of transmission and disease for humans and domestic animals. This book examines the ecological parameters affecting the conservation...

Evolution of Animal Behavior

Jennifer A. Kitchell , Matthew H. Nitecki

This volume highlights current research in the field of animal behavior, with an emphasis on evolutionary perspectives. The contributors represent paleontological, field, and experimental approaches. They focus on a series of studies that confront wide-ranging issues,...