Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Table of Contents

• Acoustic Communication in Insects: Neuroethology
• Acoustic Signals
• Active Electroreception: Vertebrates
• Adaptive Landscapes and Optimality
• Aggression and Territoriality
• Agonistic Signals
• Alarm Calls in Birds and Mammals
• Alex: A Study in Avian Cognition
• Amphibians: Orientation and Migration
• Animal Arithmetic
• Animal Behavior: Antiquity to the Sixteenth Century
• Animal Behavior: The Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries
• Animal Innovation
• Animal Psychology: An Historical Perspective
• Animal Training
• Ant, Bee and Wasp Social Evolution
• Anthropogenic Noise: Impacts on Animals
• Anthropogenic Noise: Implications for Conservation
• Antipredator Benefits from Heterospecifics
• Apes: Social Learning
• Aplysia
• Aquatic Invertebrate Endocrine Disruption
• Avian Social Learning
• Avoidance of Parasites
• Barn Swallows: Sexual and Social Behavior
• Bat Migration
• Bat Neuroethology
• Bateman’s Principles: Original Experiment and Modern Data For and Against
• Bats: Orientation, Navigation and Homing
• Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
• Betta Splendens
• Beyond Fever: Comparative Perspectives on Sickness Behavior
• Bird Migration
• Body Size and Sexual Dimorphism
• Boobies
• Bowerbirds
• Caching
• Caste Determination in Arthropods
• Caste in Social Insects: Genetic Influences Over Caste Determination
• Categories and Concepts: Language-Related Competences in Non-Linguistic Species
• Chimpanzees
• Circadian and Circannual Rhythms and Hormones
• Cockroaches
• Co-Evolution of Predators and Prey
• Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees
• Collective Intelligence
• Colony Founding in Social Insects
• Communication and Hormones
• Communication Networks
• Communication: An Overview
• Comparative Animal Behavior - 1920-1973
• Compensation in Reproduction
• Conflict Resolution
• Consensus Decisions
• Conservation and Animal Behavior
• Conservation and Anti-Predator Behavior
• Conservation and Behavior: Introduction
• Conservation Behavior and Endocrinology
• Conservation, Behavior, Parasites and Invasive Species
• Cooperation and Sociality
• Cost and Benefit Analysis
• Costs of Learning
• Crabs and Their Visual World
• Crustacean Social Evolution
• Cryptic Female Choice
• Cultural Inheritance of Signals
• Culture
• Dance Language
• Darwin and Animal Behavior
• Deception: Competition by Misleading Behavior
• Decision Making
• Decision Making and Learning: The Peak Shift Behavioral Response
• Defensive Avoidance
• Defensive Chemicals
• Defensive Coloration
• Defensive Morphology
• Development, Evolution and Behavior
• Developmental Plasticity
• Dictyostelium, the Social Amoeba
• Differential Allocation
• Digestion and Foraging
• Disease Transmission and Networks
• Disease, Behavior and Welfare
• Distributed Cognition
• Division of Labor
• Dolphin Signature Whistles
• Domestic Dogs
• Dominance Relationships, Dominance Hierarchies and Rankings
• Drosophila Behavior Genetics
• Ecology of Fear
• Economic Escape
• Ectoparasite Behavior
• Electrical Signals
• Electroreception in Vertebrates and Invertebrates
• Emotion and Social Cognition in Primates
• Empathy: Levels of
• Empirical Studies of Predator and Prey Behavior
• Endocrinology and Behavior: Methods
• Ethograms, Activity Profiles and Energy Budgets
• Ethology in Europe
• European Ethology
• Evolution and Phylogeny of Communication
• Evolution of Parasite-Induced Behavioral Alterations
• Evolution: Fundamentals
• Experiment, Observation, and Modeling in the Lab and Field
• Experimental Approaches to Hormones and Behavior: Invertebrates
• Experimental Design: Basic Concepts
• Female Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Non- Mammalian Vertebrates
• Field Techniques in Hormones and Behavior
• Fight or Flight Responses
• Fish Migration
• Fish Social Learning
• Flexible Mate Choice
• Food Intake: Behavioral Endocrinology
• Food Signals
• Foraging Modes
• Forced or Aggressively Coerced Copulation
• Future of Animal Behavior: Predicting Trends
• Game Theory
• Games Played by Predators and Prey
• Genes and Genomic Searches
• Group Living
• Group Movement
• Habitat Imprinting
• Habitat Selection
• William Donald Hamilton (indexed under H)
• Hearing in Insects
• Hearing: Vertebrates
• Helpers and Reproductive Behavior in Birds and Mammals
• Herring Gulls
• Hibernation, Daily Torpor and Estivation in Mammals and Birds: Behavioral Aspects
• Honest Signaling
• Honeybees
• Hormones and Behavior: Basic Concepts
• Hormones and Breeding Strategies, Sex Reversal, Brood Parasites, Parthenogenesis
• Horses: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
• Hunger and Satiety
• Imitation: Cognitive Implications
• Immune Systems and Sickness Behavior
• Infanticide
• Information Content and Signals
• Insect Flight and Walking: Neuroethological Basis
• Insect Migration
• Insect Navigation
• Insect Social Learning
• Integration of Proximate and Ultimate Causes
• Intermediate Host Behavior
• Internal Energy Storage
• Interspecific Communication
• Intertemporal Choice
• Invertebrate Hormones and Behavior
• Invertebrates: the Inside Story of Post-Insemination, Pre-Fertilization Reproductive Interactions
• Irruptive Migration
• Isolating Mechanisms and Speciation
• Kin Recognition and Genetics
• Kin Selection and Relatedness
• Kleptoparasitism and Cannibalism
• Learning and Conservation
• Leech Behavioral Choice: Neuroethology
• Levels of Selection
• Life Histories and Network Function
• Life Histories and Predation Risk
• Locusts
• Konrad Lorenz (indexed under L)
• Magnetic Compasses in Insects
• Magnetic Orientation in Migratory Songbirds
• Magnetoreception
• Male Ornaments and Habitat Deterioration
• Male Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Non- Mammalian Vertebrates
• Mammalian Female Sexual Behavior and Hormones
• Mammalian Social Learning: Non-Primates
• Maps and Compasses
• Marine Invertebrates: Genetics of Colony Recognition
• Mate Choice and Learning
• Mate Choice in Males and Females
• Maternal Effects on Behavior
• Mating Interference Due to Introduction of Exotic Species
• Mating Signals
• Measurement Error and Reliability
• Memory, Learning, Hormones and Behavior
• Mental Time Travel: Can Animals Recall the Past and Plan for the Future?
• Metacognition and Metamemory in Non-Human Animals
• Microevolution and Macroevolution in Behavior
• Migration and Behavioral Endocrinology
• Migratory Connectivity
• Molt in Birds and Mammals: Hormones and Behavior
• Monkeys and prosimians: Social learning
• Monogamy and Extra-Pair Parentage
• Morality and Evolution
• Motivation and Signals
• Multimodal Signaling
• Naked Mole Rats: Their Extraordinary Sensory World
• Nasonia Wasp Behavior Genetics
• Nematode Learning and Memory: Neuroethology
• Nervous System: Evolution in Relation to Behavior
• Nest Site Choice in Social Insects
• Neural Control of Sexual Behavior
• Neuroethology: Methods
• Neuroethology: What is it?
• Non-Elemental Learning in Invertebrates
• Norway Rats
• Octopus
• Olfactory Signals
• Ontogenetic Effects of Captive Breeding
• Optimal Foraging and Plant-Pollinator Co-Evolution
• Optimal Foraging Theory: Introduction
• Orthopteran Behavioral Genetics
• Pair-Bonding, Mating Systems and Hormones
• Parasite-Induced Behavioral Change: Mechanisms
• Parasite-Modified Vector Behavior
• Parasites and Insects: Aspects of Social Behavior
• Parasites and Sexual Selection
• Parasitoid Wasps: Neuroethology
• Parasitoids
• Parental Behavior and Hormones in Mammals
• Parental Behavior and Hormones in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
• Parent-offspring Signaling
• Parmecium Behavioral Genetics
• Patch Exploitation
• Pets: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
• Pheidole: Sociobiology of a Highly Diverse Genus
• Phylogenetic Inference and the Evolution of Behavior
• Pigeon Homing as a Model Case of Goal-Oriented Navigation
• Pigeons
• Pigs: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
• Play
• Playbacks in Behavioral Experiments
• Poultry: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
• Predator Avoidance: Mechanisms
• Predator Evasion
• Predator's Perspective on Predator-Prey Interactions
• Problem-Solving in Tool-Using and Non-Tool-Using Animals
• Propagule Behavior and Parasite Transmission
• Punishment
• Queen-Queen Conflict in Eusocial Insect Colonies
• Queen-Worker Conflicts Over Colony Sex Ratio
• Rational Choice Behavior: Definitions and Evidence
• Recognition Systems in the Social Insects
• Referential Signaling
• Remote-Sensing of Behavior
• Reproductive Behavior and Parasites: Invertebrates
• Reproductive Behavior and Parasites: Vertebrates
• Reproductive Skew
• Reproductive Skew, Cooperative Breeding, and Eusociality in Vertebrates: Hormones
• Reproductive Success
• Rhesus Macaques
• Risk Allocation in Anti-Predator Behavior
• Risk-Taking in Self-Defense
• Robot Behavior
• Robotics in the Study of Animal Behavior
• Sea Turtles: Navigation and Orientation
• Seasonality: Hormones and Behavior
• Seed Dispersal and Conservation
• Self-Medication: Passive Prevention and Active Treatment
• Sentience
• Sequence Analysis and Transition Models
• Sex Allocation, Sex Ratios and Reproduction
• Sex and Social Evolution
• Sex Change in Reef Fishes: Behavior and Physiology
• Sex Changing Organisms and Reproductive Behavior
• Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Male Mammals
• Sexual Selection and Speciation
• Sharks
• Signal Parasites
• Slaughter Plants: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
• Sleep and Hormones
• Smell: Vertebrates
• Social Behavior and Parasites
• Social Cognition and Theory of Mind
• Social Evolution in 'Other' Insects and Arachnids
• Social Information Use
• Social Insects: Behavioral Genetics
• Social Learning: Theory
• Social Recognition
• Social Selection, Sexual Selection, and Sexual Conflict
• Sociogenomics
• Sound Localization: Neuroethology
• Sound Production: Vertebrates
• Spatial Memory
• Spatial Orientation and Time: Methods
• Specialization
• Sperm Competition
• Spiders: Social Evolution
• Spotted Hyenas
• Stress, Health and Social Behavior
• Subsociality and the Evolution of Eusociality
• Swordtails and Platyfishes
• Syntactically Complex Vocal Systems
• Tadpole Behavior and Metamorphosis
• Taste: Invertebrates
• Taste: Vertebrates
• Termites: Social Evolution
• Thermoreception: Invertebrates
• Thermoreception: Vertebrates
• Threespine Stickleback
• Time: What Animals Know
• Niko Tinbergen
• Trade-Offs in Anti-Predator Behavior
• Tribolium
• Túngara Frog: A Model for Sexual Selection and Communication
• Turtles: Freshwater
• Unicolonial Ants: Loss of Colony Identity
• Vertebrate Endocrine Disruption
• Vertical Migration of Aquatic Animals
• Vibration Perception: Vertebrates
• Vibrational Communication
• Vigilance and Models of Behavior
• Vision: Invertebrates
• Vision: Vertebrates
• Visual Signals
• Vocal Learning
• Vocal-Acoustic Communication in Fishes: Neuroethology
• Water and Salt Intake in Vertebrates: Endocrine and Behavioral Regulation
• Welfare of Animals: Behavior as a Basis for Decisions
• Welfare of Animals: Introduction
• White-Crowned Sparrow
• Wintering Strategies
• Wintering Strategies, Moult and Behavior
• Wolves
• Worker - Worker Conflict and Worker Policing
• Zebra Finches
• Zebrafish

Quotes

"The study of animal behavior is fascinating for many reasons, not the least of which is the light it may shine on human action. Here editors Breed (Univ. of Colorado) and Moore (Colorado State Univ.) present more than 300 articles on aspects of animal behavior, the work of 400 contributors from around the world. Each signed article begins with an introduction, then addresses the topic in several pages of detail, including supporting figures. Each article ends with a list of books, journal articles, and websites for further reading, some as recent as 2009. Articles may be based on a broad topic ("bird migration"), a more specific topic ("mating interference due to introduction of exotic species"), a specific animal ("spotted hyenas"), or a person ("Niko Tinbergen"). As articles are arranged alphabetically, the astute reader will consult the subject classification index to find all relevant articles. There are, for example, 29 articles classified under Landmark Studies, and five under Networks-Social. Cross-references and a general index are also provided, as well as a glossary. Breed and Moore contributed to Greenwood Press’s 2004 work by the same name, edited by Marc Bekoff (also Univ. of Colorado). Bekoff called that earlier work unrivaled at the time. Consider the current title a worthy successor, geared perhaps toward a slightly older, more educated reader. BOTTOM LINE Highly recommended for academic and public libraries, including those holding the earlier work of the same title." -Teresa R. Faust, Vermont Dept. of Libs., Berlin

Author Information

Michael D. Breed, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A. and Janice Moore, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO