Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals
Published on 10. May 2016
Book
Hardback
XIII, 276 pages
978-3-319-28583-2 (ISBN)
Description
The last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal phenomena, including collective behaviour and social networks. In 'Animal Social Behaviour', authors Ashley Ward and Michael Webster integrate the most up-to-date empirical and theoretical research to provide a new synthesis of the field, which is aimed at fellow researchers and postgraduate students on the topic.
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Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
19 farbige Abbildungen, 28 s/w Abbildungen
XIII, 276 p. 47 illus., 19 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
659 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-28583-2 (9783319285832)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-28585-6
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Ashley Ward | Mike Webster
Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals
Book
05/2018
Springer
€181.89
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Ashley Ward | Mike Webster
Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals
E-Book
04/2016
1st Edition
Springer
€171.19
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Persons
Dr. Ashley Ward, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Mike Webster, Lecturer, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK.
Dr. Mike Webster, Lecturer, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK.
Content
Part 1 What is Sociality?.- Part 2 How Do Animals Group?.- Part 3 Why Do Animals Group?.- Part 4 How does animal social behaviour fit in an evolutionary context?.