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Book Behavioral Ecology of the Antipredator Vigilance of Thirteen lined Ground Squirrels  Sciuridae  Spermophilus Tridecemlineatus

Download or read book Behavioral Ecology of the Antipredator Vigilance of Thirteen lined Ground Squirrels Sciuridae Spermophilus Tridecemlineatus written by Cody L. Arenz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience

Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience written by Mark Blumberg and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience is a seminal reference work in the burgeoning field of developmental behavioral neuroscience, which has emerged in recent years as an important sister discipline to developmental psychobiology. This handbook, part of the Oxford Library of Neuroscience, provides an introduction to recent advances in research at the intersection of developmental science and behavioral neuroscience, while emphasizing the central research perspectives of developmental psychobiology. Contributors to the Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience are drawn from a variety of fields, including developmental psychobiology, neuroscience, comparative psychology, and evolutionary biology, demonstrating the opportunities to advance our understanding of behavioral and neural development through enhanced interactions among parallel disciplines.In a field ripe for collaboration and integration, the Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience provides an unprecedented overview of conceptual and methodological issues pertaining to comparative and developmental neuroscience that can serve as a roadmap for researchers and a textbook for educators. Its broad reach will spur new insights and compel new collaborations in this rapidly growing field.

Book Squirrels of the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard W. Thorington Jr.
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2012-09-01
  • ISBN : 1421408686
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Squirrels of the World written by Richard W. Thorington Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most thorough treatment ever undertaken on the Sciuridae and promises to be the definitive book on squirrels for decades to come. Squirrels of the World, written by scientists with more than 100 years of collective experience studying these popular mammals, is the first comprehensive examination of all 285 species of squirrels worldwide. The authors reveal virtually every detail of the family Sciuridae, which includes ground squirrels, tree squirrels, flying squirrels, prairie dogs, and chipmunks. Each species—from the familiar gray squirrel of American backyards to the exotic and endangered woolly flying squirrel of Pakistan—is described in a detailed account that includes distinguishing characteristics, ecology, natural history, conservation status, and current threats to its existence. Squirrels of the World includes • stunning color photographs that document rare and unusual squirrels as well as common varieties • evolution, morphology, ecology, and conservation status • colorful range maps marking species distribution • images of the skull of each genus of squirrel • extensive references

Book Determinants of Age at Dispersal and Settlment  i e  Settlement  Patterns in the Belding s Ground Squirrel  Spermophilus Beldingi

Download or read book Determinants of Age at Dispersal and Settlment i e Settlement Patterns in the Belding s Ground Squirrel Spermophilus Beldingi written by Eva-Maria Muecke and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wildlife Abstracts

    Book Details:
  • Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 826 pages

Download or read book Wildlife Abstracts written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Black Tailed Prairie Dog

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  • Author : John L. Hoogland
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1995-04
  • ISBN : 0226351181
  • Pages : 571 pages

Download or read book The Black Tailed Prairie Dog written by John L. Hoogland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog, John L. Hoogland draws on sixteen years of research at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, in the United States to provide this account of prairie dog social behavior. Through comparisons with more than 300 other animal species, he offers new insights into basic theory in behavioral ecology and sociobiology. Hoogland documents interactions within and among families of prairie dogs to examine the advantages and disadvantages of coloniality. By addressing such topics as male and female reproductive success, inbreeding, kin recognition, and infanticide, Hoogland offers a broad view of conflict and cooperation. Among his surprising findings is that prairie dog females sometimes suckle, and at other times kill, the offspring of close kin. Enhanced by more than 100 photographs, this book illuminates the social organization of a burrowing mammal and raises fundamental questions about current theory. As the most detailed long-term study of any social rodent, The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog will interest not only mammalogists and other vertebrate biologists, but also students of behavioral and evolutionary ecology.

Book The Application of DNA Fingerprinting Technology to a Behavioral Study of the Thirteen lined Ground Squirrel  Spermophilus Tridecemlineatus

Download or read book The Application of DNA Fingerprinting Technology to a Behavioral Study of the Thirteen lined Ground Squirrel Spermophilus Tridecemlineatus written by John W. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Demography and Behavioral Correlates of Male biased Juvenile Mortality in Thirteen lined Ground Squirrels  Spermophilus Tridecemlineatus

Download or read book Demography and Behavioral Correlates of Male biased Juvenile Mortality in Thirteen lined Ground Squirrels Spermophilus Tridecemlineatus written by Pamela L. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rodent Societies

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  • Author : Jerry O. Wolff
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-09-15
  • ISBN : 0226905381
  • Pages : 627 pages

Download or read book Rodent Societies written by Jerry O. Wolff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodent Societies synthesizes and integrates the current state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting emerging conservation and management strategies to preserve them. It begins with a summary of the evolution, phylogeny, and biogeography of social and nonsocial rodents, providing a historical basis for comparative analyses. Subsequent sections focus on group-living rodents and characterize their reproductive behaviors, life histories and population ecology, genetics, neuroendocrine mechanisms, behavioral development, cognitive processes, communication mechanisms, cooperative and uncooperative behaviors, antipredator strategies, comparative socioecology, diseases, and conservation. Using the highly diverse and well-studied Rodentia as model systems to integrate a variety of research approaches and evolutionary theory into a unifying framework, Rodent Societies will appeal to a wide range of disciplines, both as a compendium of current research and as a stimulus for future collaborative and interdisciplinary investigations.

Book Developmental Psychobiology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elliott M. Blass
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1461512093
  • Pages : 632 pages

Download or read book Developmental Psychobiology written by Elliott M. Blass and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ELLIOTT M. BLASS Fifteen years have passed since the first volume on developmental psychobiology (Blass, 1986) appeared in this series and 13 since the publication of the second volume (Blass, 1988). These volumes documented the status of the broad domain of scientific inquiry called developmental psychobiology and were also written with an eye to the future. The future has been revolutionary in at least three ways. First, there was the demise of a descriptive ethology as we had known it, to be replaced first by sociobiology and later by its more sophisticated versions based on quantitative predictions of social interactions that reflected relatedness and inclu sive fitness. Second, there was the emergence of cognitive science, including cogni tive development, as an enormously strong and interactive multidisciplinary effort. Making the "functional" brain more accessible made this revolution all the more relevant to our discipline. In the laboratory, immunocytochemical detection of immediate / early genes, such as los, now allows us to trace neuronal circuits activated during complex behaviors. The "functional" brain of primates, especially humans, was also made very accessible through neuroimaging with which we can look at and into brains as they solve and attempt to solve particular tasks. Those of us who were trained in neurology as graduate students two or three decades ago recognize only the people in white coats and patients in beds or on gurneys when we visit neurologi cal units today. The rest is essentially new.

Book Observations of objectively quantifiable collateral behavior of thirteen lined ground squirrels  Spermophilus tridecemlineatus  produced on a differential reinforcement of low response rates schedule

Download or read book Observations of objectively quantifiable collateral behavior of thirteen lined ground squirrels Spermophilus tridecemlineatus produced on a differential reinforcement of low response rates schedule written by Gerald Lee Whiteside and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: