Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field

by Ploger; Yasukawa

• ISBN13: 9780125583305
• ISBN10: 0125583303
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-23
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

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