Comparative Psychology of Invertebrates: The Field and Laboratory Study of Insect Behavior

by Greenberg,Gary; Greenberg,Gary

• ISBN13: 9780815321965
• ISBN10: 0815321961
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword
Preface
The Role of Controversy in Animal Behavior	p. 3
Grades, Levels and Ratchets in Evolution	p. 39
Where Have I Heard It All Before - Some Neglected Issues of Invertebrate Learning	p. 55
Macroevolution of a Fixed Action Pattern for Learning - The Exploration Flights of Bees and Wasps	p. 79
Desert Ants - Their Evolution and Contemporary Characteristics	p. 101
Task Allocation and Interaction Rates in Social Insect Colonies	p. 125
Division of Labor in Social Insect Colonies: Self-Organization and Recent Revelations Regarding Age, Size and Genetic Differences	p. 135
Ecology, Colony Demography, and Social Organization in Ants	p. 157
Adaptation for Social Parasitism in the Slave-Making Ant Genus Polyergus	p. 177
The Role of Workers and Queens in the Colony-Member Recognition Systems of Ants: Are There Any Differences that Predispose Some Kinds of Ants to Social Parasitism?	p. 193
The Problem of Measuring Associative Learning in Drosophila melanogaster with Proper Procedures to Control for Nonassociative Effects	p. 223
Pseudostinging Behavior of the Harvester Ant Messor sanctus Forel as a Response to Novelty	p. 245
Contributors	p. 277
Species Index	p. 279
Name Index	p. 283
Subject Index	p. 287
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