Animal Conflict
In the past twenty years there have been many new developments in the study of animal behaviour: for example, more sophisticated methods of neurophysiology; more precise techniques for assessing hormonal levels; more accurate methods for studying animals in the wild; and, on the functional side, the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1987, 1987
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1987 |
| Series: | Chapman & Hall Animal Behaviour Series
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One Patterns of Animal Conflict
- 1 Conflict in the animal world
- 2 A survey of animal conflict
- 3 Issues and concepts in the study of animal conflict
- Two The Causes of Agonistic Behaviour
- 4 Behavioural mechanisms
- 5 The role of hormones
- 6 Neural mechanisms
- Three Genetic and Environmental Influences
- 7 Genetics
- 8 Development
- Four Consequences, Fitness and Evolutionary Change
- 9 The consequences of animal conflict
- 10 Evolutionary history
- 11 The behavioural ecology of animal conflict
- 12 The biology of human aggression
- References
- Species index