Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 51, provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field. Users will find new information on a variety of species, including The troublesome gift: the spermatophylax as a purveyor of sexual conflict and coercion, Conformity and over-imitation: an integrative review of two forms of hyper-reliance on social learning, Copulatory behavior and genital morphology in vertebrates, Sexual selection in polyandrous societies: Lessons from the fowl, Sensory information in social insects, Evolution of female coloration, what have we learned from birds in general and blue tits in particular, Sexual selection and social behavior in spiders, and more.
- Serves the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior
- Makes another important contribution to the development of the field
- Presents theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and related fields
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1 The troublesome gift: The spermatophylax as a purveyor of sexual conflict and coercion in crickets |
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1 What are nuptial food gifts? |
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2 The cricket spermatophylax |
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3 Sexual conflict over female acceptance of the gift |
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4 Sexual conflict over female remating |
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5 The cost of producing a spermatophylax |
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6 Origin of nuptial food gifts |
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7 Resolving the conflict over sexual conflict |
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2 Conformity and over-imitation: An integrative review of variant forms of hyper-reliance on social learning |
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4 Over-imitation and conformity: Compare and contrast |
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3 Sexual selection in socially-structured, polyandrous populations: Some insights from the fowl |
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2 Pre-copulatory sexual selection |
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4 Post-copulatory sexual selection |
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5 The impact of polyandry on sexual selection |
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4 Cowbird cognition: Examinations of the mental skills of a brood parasite |
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2 The case for evolution of cognition in cowbirds |
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3 Experiments on nest selection: A two-phase design |
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4 Egg size, color, and pattern discrimination |
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7 Putting it all together: Episodic memory |
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8 Age and experience effects on cognition |
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9 Nest prospecting and social cognition |
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10 Adaptive specialization or general cognitive skill? |
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5 Sexual selection and social context: Web-building spiders as emerging models for adaptive plasticity |
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2 Variable sexual selection linked to social context |
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3 Sexual selection and social context in (some) web-building spiders |
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4 Tests of adaptive plasticity in Nephila, Argiope, and Latrodectus spiders |
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5 Adaptive plasticity: Where are we now? |
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Marc Naguib is professor in Behavioural Ecology at the Animal Sciences Department of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He studied biology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and received his PhD (1995) at UNC Chapel Hill, NC in the US. After his PhD held positions at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (1995-1999) and Bielefeld University (2000-2007) in Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (2008-2011), until he was appointed in 2011 as Chair of the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is specialized in vocal communication, social behaviour, animal personality and the effects of conditions experienced during early development on behaviour and life history traits, mainly using song birds as model. His research group is also involved in animal welfare research using farm animals. He has served for many years on the council of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and of the Ethologische Gesellschaft. He published > 80 scientific publications and has been Editor for Advances in the Study of Behaviour since 2003. Since 2014 he is Executive Editor.
