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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Beauchamp, Guy. Social predation. |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Guy Beauchamp |
ISBN: | 9780124076549 0124076548 1306213029 9781306213028 |
OCLC Number: | 876361468 |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Contents: | Finding and exploiting food in groups -- Producing and scrounging -- Antipredator ploys -- Antipredator vigilance : theory and testing the assumptions -- Antipredator vigilance : detection and the group-size effect -- The selfish herd -- Group size and composition -- Mixed-species groups -- Evolutionary issues. |
Series Title: | Gale virtual reference library |
Responsibility: | Guy Beauchamp. |
Abstract:
Helps the reader understand current issues in social predation theory and provide a synthesis of the literature across a broad range of animal taxa. This title features analysis that allows a better understanding of many subtleties surrounding the issues related to social predation.
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"...an extremely useful and well-written volume...I recommend it highly to anyone interested in animal behavior and/or ecology." --The Quarterly Review of Biology, Social Predation "This is an excellent introduction to the coevolution of predator-prey relationships, with an extensive bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended." --CHOICE Reviews Online, Nov 2014 Read more...
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