Leaders in Animal Behavior: The Second Generation

by Lee Drickamer , Donald Dewsbury

• ISBN13: 9780521741293
• ISBN10: 0521741297
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Animal behaviour, as a discipline, has undergone several key transitions over the last 25 years, growing in both depth and breadth. Key advances have been made in behavioural ecology and socio-biology, in the development of studies integrating proximate and ultimate causation, in the integration of laboratory and field work, and in advances in theoretical work in areas such as sexual selection, foraging and life-history traits. Thus it is appropriate to relate the individual stories of those who have had significant impacts on the field as we know it today. Leaders in Animal Behaviour: The Second Generation is a collection of autobiographies from 21 individuals that have been peer selected, and have provided unique and important contributions to the field in the past 25 years.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Understanding ourselves	p. 1
Motherhood, methods, and monkeys: an intertwined professional and personal life	p. 39
Coming together	p. 59
My life and hard times	p. 83
Individuals, societies and populations	p. 109
Birds, butterflies and behavioural ecology	p. 143
King Solomon's herring gull's world	p. 165
Growing up in ethology	p. 189
A passion for primates	p. 219
Taking my cues from nature's clues	p. 241
A most unlikely animal behaviorist	p. 279
Watcher: the development of an evolutionary biologist	p. 309
Myths, monkeys, and motherhood: a compromising life	p. 343
Luck, chance and choice	p. 375
My life with birds	p. 405
Reflections before dusk	p. 429
An improbable path	p. 465
Birds, babies, and behaving	p. 497
A brief just-so story of my life (a few of the reminiscences that are fit to print)	p. 527
A bird in the hand	p. 561
Living with birds and conservation	p. 593
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