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Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field

by Ploger; Yasukawa

ISBN13: 9780125583305
ISBN10: 0125583303
eBook ISBN(s): 9780080506197, 9780125583305
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2002-10-23
Publisher: Elsevier Science

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Summary

A new laboratory manual that provides both traditional, directed exercises and inquiry-based exercises that encourage students to design their own experiments. The exercises in this manual illustrate current theoretical issues and methods used by biologists, psychologists, and anthropologists who study animal behavior. -- Supports a range of pedagogical styles and texts in animal behavior with active learning experiences that engage students -- Students and instructors benefit from knowledge and experience of members of the Animal Behavior Society

Table of Contents

Contributors

ix

Preface

xiii

Introduction

01

(8)

PART 1 DESCRIBING BEHAVIOR

09

(32)

Learning to Describe and Quantify Animal Behavior

11

(20)

Bonnie J. Ploger

Developing Operational Definitions and Measuring Interobserver Reliability Using House Crickets (Acheta domesticus)

31

(10)

Terry Glover

PART 2 CAUSATION

41

(116)

Courtship, Mating, and Sex Pheromones in the Mealworm Beetle (Tenebrio molitor)

43

(16)

Enrique Font

Ester Desfilis

Courtship and Mate Attraction in Parasitic Wasps

59

(14)

Robert W. Matthew

Janice R. Matthews

Chemoreception in Lizards

73

(6)

C. O'Neil Krekorian

Behavioral Thermoregulation in Field Populations of Amphibian Larvae

79

(6)

Howard H. Whiteman

Nancy L. Buschhaus

Temperature Dependence of the Electric Organ Discharge in Weakly Electric Fish

85

(10)

Gunther K. H. Zupanc

Jonathan R. Banks

Gerhard Engler

Robert C. Beason

Observing and Analyzing Human Nonverbal Communication

95

(18)

Penny L. Bernstein

Foraging Behavior of Ants, or Picnics: An Ant's-Eye View

113

(14)

Sylvia L. Halkin

Hummingbird Foraging Patterns: Experiments Using Artificial Flowers

127

(6)

Alastair Inman

Honey Bee Foraging Behavior

133

(14)

Monica Raveret Richter

Jasmin M. Keramaty

Individual Constancy to Color by Foraging Honey Bees

147

(10)

Peggy S. M. Hill

Harrington Wells

PART 3 DEVELOPMENT

157

(54)

Dog Training Laboratory: Applied Animal Behavior

159

(8)

Lynn L. Gillie

George H. Waring

Paternal Care and Its Effect on Maternal Behavior and Pup Survival and Development in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

167

(10)

Betty McGuire

The Effect of Prenatal Visual Stimulation on the Imprinting Responses of Domestic Chicks: An Examination of Sensitive Periods During Development

177

(10)

Wendy L. Hill

Development of Thermoregulation in Altricial Rodents

187

(12)

Gail R. Michener

T. Dic Charge

Aggregation and Kin Recognition in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus laevis)

199

(12)

Kathryn L. Anderson

Bonnie J. Ploger

PART 4 ADAPTATION AND EVOLUTION

211

(2)

Section I Foraging

213

(44)

Diving Birds: A Field Study of Benthic and Piscivorous Foragers

215

(6)

Jennifer J. Templeton

D. James Mountjoy

Found A Peanut: Foraging Decisions by Squirrels

221

(10)

Sylvia L. Halkin

Economic Decisions and Foraging Trade-offs in Chickadees

231

(8)

Ronald L. Mumme

Seed Selection by Foraging Birds

239

(8)

Monica Raveret Richter

Judith A. Halstead

Kierstin Savastano

Competitive Behavior of Birds at Feeders

247

(10)

Alison M. Mostrom

Section II Avoiding Predators

257

(44)

Vigilance and the Group-size Effect: Observing Behavior in Humans

259

(20)

Joanna E. Scheib

Lisa E. Cody

Nicola S. Clayton

Robert D. Montgomerie

The Function of ``Chat'' Calls in Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos): Vocal Defense of Nestlings

279

(8)

Cheryl A. Logan

Diving and Skating in Whirligig Beetles: Alternative Antipredator Responses

287

(8)

Alastair Inman

Anne Houtman

The Response of Tree Squirrels to Conspecific and Heterospecific Alarm Calls

295

(6)

Anne Houtman

Section III Agonistic Behavior

301

(18)

Competition for Breeding Resources by Burying Beetles

303

(6)

Michelle Pellissier Scott

Learning to be Winners and Losers: Agonistic Behavior in Crayfish

309

(10)

Elizabeth M. Jakob

Chad D. Hoefler

Section IV Courtship and Parental Care

319

(38)

Costs and Benefits of Maternal Care in Earwigs

321

(6)

Ronald L. Mumme

James O. Palmer

Susan M. Rankin

Vocal Behavior and Mating Tactics of the Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer): A Field Exercise in Animal Behavior

327

(14)

Don C. Forester

The Role of Multiple Male Characters in Mate Choice by Female Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

341

(10)

Dan J. Albrecht

Investigating Human Mate Choice Using the Want Ads

351

(6)

Mary Crowe

Section V Games

357

(30)

Demonstrating Strategies for Solving the Prisoner's Dilemma

359

(20)

Kathleen N. Morgan

Using Empirical Games to Teach Animal Behavior

379

(8)

Philip K. Stoddard

Section VI Evolution

387

(60)

The Evolution of Behavior: A Phylogenetic Approach

389

(26)

Ken Yasukawa

Appendices

A. Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching

399

(12)

The Animal Behavior Society and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

Ethical Use of Human Subjects

411

(4)

American Psychological Association

Introduction to Statistics

415

(32)

Bonnie J. Ploger

Ken Yasukawa

Glossary

447

(16)

Index

463

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