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An engaging exploration of the wondrous social webs that permeate life in animal societies around the world. It's all about who you know. Whether vampire bats sharing blood meals for survival, field crickets remembering champion fighters, macaque monkeys forming grooming pacts after a deadly hurricane, or great tit birds learning the best way to steal milk--it pays to be well connected. In this tour of the animal kingdom, evolutionary biologis...

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In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed, Darwin worried that the goodness he observed in nature could be the Achilles heel of his theory. Ever since then, scientists and other thinkers have engaged in a fierce debate about the origins of...

Hermit crabs might not be the first example that comes to mind when thinking about power in animal relationships, but they are representative of the costs, benefits, assessment, and struggles that animal behaviorist Lee Dugatkin explains in Power in the Wild. Besides learning that researchers can evict all crabs from their shells by tickling their abdomens with paintbrushes, readers discover that attacker crabs can assess both the quality of s...

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Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition, Lee Alan Dugatkin draws on cutting-edge new work not only to update and expand on the studies presented, but also to reinforce the previous editions' focus on ultimate and proximate causation, as well as the book's unique emphasis on natural selection, learning, and cultural transmission. The resu...

The crazy story of how Soviet scientists in Siberia in the 1950s embarked on a project to turn foxes into dogs through selective breeding-and managed it within mere generations.

Wie russische Forscher in einem bemerkenswerten Züchtungsexperiment den Weg vom Wildtier zum Haustier im Schnelldurchgang nachvollziehen An einem Ort im abgelegenen Sibirien findet man vierbeinige Fellwesen, die mit dem Schwanz wedeln, Schlappohren haben und so gelehrig und freundlich sind wie Schoßhunde. Doch es sind keine Hunde – es sind Füchse. Sie sind das Ergebnis eines der erstaunlichsten Züchtungsexperimente, die je unternommen wurden –...

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Using the work started by Soviet biologist Dmitry Belyaev, who decided to gather up 130 foxes from Siberian fox farms and figure out just how long it would take to domesticate them, this volume shows how an experiment over time unlocked the molecular mysteries of domestication.

Using the work started by Soviet biologist Dmitry Belyaev, who decided to gather up 130 foxes from Siberian fox farms and figure out just how long it would take to domesticate them, this volume shows how an experiment over time unlocked the molecular mysteries of domestication.

Principles of Animal Behavior has long been considered the most current and engaging introduction to animal behavior. The Third Edition is now also the most comprehensive and balanced in its approach to the theoretical framework behind how biologists study behavior.

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