Social Behaviour in Animals With Special Reference to Vertebrates /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tinbergen, J. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1965.
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.