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9780198546757

Dunnock Behaviour and Social Evolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198546757

  • ISBN10:

    0198546750

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-09-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

At first sight just a small brown bird, the dunnock's unobtrusive appearance belies its extraordinary behavior and mating patterns. This book gives a full account of the mating systems of the dunnock or hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis , which include pairs, a male with two females, two males with one female, and several males with several females. Detailed observations, elegant field experiments, and DNA fingerprinting are combined to show how this variable social organization arises from selfish individuals competing to maximize their own reproductive success. Further experiments reveal how the cuckoo may thwart the dunnock's parental efforts. David Quinn's exquisite drawings provide a visual summary of the bird's behavior. All students of ecology, evolution, and animal behavior will want to be familiar with this work, which addresses the wider issues of the influence of ecology on mating systems and the evolutionary significance of conflict within and between species. This is the third volume in the Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution, and the first in this series to address behavioral ecology.

Author Biography


Nick Davies is a Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Cambridge and co-editor with J. R. Krebs of the leading text in this field, Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach.

Table of Contents

Why Dunnocks?
Study Species and Study Area
Population Structure and the Variable Mating System
Territorial Behavior: Competition for Habitat and Mates
Factors Influencing an Individual's Competitive Success
Mate Guarding and Mating: Sexual Conflict
Relating Behavior to Maternity and Paternity
Reproductive Output from the Different Mating Systems
Individual Reproductive Success in the Various Mating Systems
Parental Effort by Males and Females in Pairs and Trios
How Males Allocate Effort between Broods in Polygyny and Polygynandry
Paternity and Parental Effort
Parasitism by Cuckoos
Sexual Conflict, Parental Care, and Mating Systems
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