Social Behaviour in Animals With Special Reference to Vertebrates /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1965.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 1965. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7686-6 |
Table of Contents:
- I Introduction
- Statement of the problems
- The Herring Gull
- The Three-spined Stickleback
- The Grayling
- Types of social co-operation
- II Mating Behaviour
- The functions of mating behaviour
- Some instances of timing
- Persuasion and appeasement
- Orientation
- Reproductive isolation
- Conclusion
- III Family and Group Life
- Family life
- Group behaviour
- IV Fighting
- Reproductive fighting
- The functions of reproductive fighting
- The causes of fighting
- The peckorder
- V Analysis of Social Co-Operation
- Recapitulation
- The actor's behaviour
- The behaviour of the reactor
- Review of releasers
- Conclusion
- VI Relations Between Different Species
- The release of reactions
- The avoidance of release
- VII The Growth of Social Organizations
- Differentiation and integration
- The establishment of social ties
- Further developments
- Conclusion
- Regulation
- VIII Evolutionary Aspects of Social Organization
- The comparative method
- Comparison of social systems
- Comparison of releasers
- Conclusion
- IX Some Hints for Research in Animal Sociology.