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Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications, Third Edition, uses broad organizing concepts to provide a framework for understanding the science of animal behavior. In an engaging, question-driven style, Shawn E. Nordell and Thomas J. Valone offer readers a clear learning progression for understanding and evaluating empirical research examples.FOCUSES ON METHODOLOGY AND THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE. Featured studies illustrate each concept and emphasize the experimental designs and the hypothesis testing methods scientists use to address research questions. HIGHLIGHTS REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS. 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Elis, University of California - Berkeley\u003cbr\u003eIt's a completely different way of presenting material to students - makes them see \"science in action: and thus the concepts come alive, rather than appear as dull facts to be memorized. It's very well-written and engaging - students with even the slightest interest in teh field will enjoy reading it! The focus on applications and current research is especially appealing and unique\"    Miles Engell, North Carolina State University\u003cbr\u003eNordell \u0026amp; Valone's Animal Behavior highlights major concepts in teh field in an easy to follow, organized manner The details of contemporary research studies are used to emphasize the scientific process and to encourage students to make critical connections between empirical data and broader theoreticla concepts\"    Dr. Christy Wolovich, Florida Southern College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Chapter 1. The Science of Animal Behavior  1.1 Animals and their behavior are an integral part of human society Recognizing and defining behavior  Measuring behavior in elephant ethograms  1.2 The scientific method is a formalized way of knowing about the natural world The importance of hypotheses  The scientific method  Negative results and directional hypotheses  Correlation and causality  Hypotheses and theories  Social sciences and the natural sciences  1.3 Scientists study both the proximate mechanisms that generate behavior and the ultimate reasons why the behavior evolved Tinbergen's four questions  Implications of Tinbergen's work  1.4 Researchers have examined animal behavior from a variety of perspectives over time Darwin and adaptation  Early comparative psychology  Comparative psychology in North America  Behaviorism  Classical ethology  Interdisciplinary approaches  1.5 Anthropomorphic explanations of behavior assign human emotions to animals and can be difficult to test Chapter Summary and Beyond  Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 1.1 Robin abundance and food availability  Scientific Process 1.2 Robin abundance and predators  Applying the Concepts 1.1 Human infant crying  Applying the Concepts 1.2 What is behind the \"guilty look\" in dogs?  Toolbox 1.1 Describing and summarizing data  Toolbox 1.2 Interpreting graphical data   Quantitative Reasoning 1.1 Nesting success and breeding habitats   Chapter 2. Methods for Studying Animal Behavior  2.1 Animal behavior scientists generate and test hypotheses to answer research questions about behavior Hypothesis testing in wolf spiders  Generating hypotheses  Hypotheses and predictions from mathematical models  2.2 Researchers use observational, experimental, and comparative methods to study behavior The observational method  The observational method and male mating tactics in bighorn sheep  The experimental method  The experimental method and jumping tadpoles  The comparative method  The comparative method and the evolution of burrowing behavior in mice  2.3 Animal behavior research requires ethical animal use How research can affect animals  Sources of ethical standards  The three Rs  2.4 Scientific knowledge is generated and communicated to the scientific community via peer-reviewed research Chapter Summary and Beyond  Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 2.1 Jumping tadpoles  Applying the Concepts 2.1 Project Seahorse  Toolbox 2.1 Animal sampling techniques  Toolbox 2.2 Scientific literacy   Quantitative Reasoning 2.1 Sampling methods   Chapter 3. Evolution and the Study of Animal Behavior  3.1 Evolution by natural selection favors behavioral adaptations that enhance fitness Measures of heritability  Maternal defense behavior in mice  Variation within a population  Frequency-dependent selection  Fitness and adaptation  3.2 Modes of natural selection describe population changes Directional selection in juvenile ornate tree lizards  Disruptive selection in spadefoot toad tadpoles  Stabilizing selection in juvenile convict cichlids  Studying adaptation: the cost-benefit approach  3.3 Individual and group selection have been used to explain cooperation 3.4 Sexual selection is a form of natural selection that focuses on the reproductive fitness of individuals Sexual selection in widowbirds  Chapter Summary and Beyond  Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 3.1 Stabilizing selection on territory size in cichlids  Applying the Concepts 3.1 Do lemmings commit suicide?  Toolbox 3.1 Genetics primer   Quantitative Reasoning 3.1 Presence and absence of predator cues   Chapter 4. Behavioral Genetics  4.1 Behaviors vary in their heritability  4.2 Behavioral variation is associated with genetic variation Behavioral differences between wild-type and mutant-type fruit flies  Major and minor genes  Fire ant genotype and social organization  Experimental manipulation of gene function: knockout studies  Anxiety-related behavior and knockout of a hormone receptor in mice  QTL mapping to identify genes associated with behavior  QTL mapping for aphid feeding behavior  4.3 The environment influences behavior via gene expression Environmental effects on zebrafish aggression  Social environment and gene expression in fruit flies  Social environment and birdsong development  Social environment and gene expression in birds  Gene-environment interactions  Rover and sitter foraging behavior in fruit flies  4.4 Genomic approaches correlate gene expression with behavioral phenotypes Scouting behavior in bees  Genomics and alternative mating tactics in fish  4.5 Genes can limit behavioral flexibility Bold and shy personalities in streamside salamanders  Aggressive personalities in funnel-web spiders  Animal personalities model with fitness trade-offs  Environmental effects on jumping spider personalities  Chapter Summary and Beyond  Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 4.1 Environmental effects on zebrafish aggression  Scientific Process 4.2 Heritability of great tit exploratory behavior  Scientific Process 4.3 Salamander personalities  Applying the Concepts 4.1 Dog behavior heritability  Toolbox 4.1 Molecular techniques   Quantitative Reasoning 4.1 Female body size and sexual cannibalism   Chapter 5. Sensory Systems and Behavior  5.1 Animals acquire environmental information from their sensory systems 5.2 Chemosensory systems detect chemicals that are perceived as tastes and odors Sweet and umami taste perception in rodents  Cuttlefish physiological response to odors  5.3 Photoreception allows animals to detect light and perceive objects as images Color vision in monarch butterflies  Ultraviolet plumage reflectance in birds  Infrared detection in snakes  5.4 Mechanoreceptors detect vibrations that travel through air, water, or substrates Ultrasonic song detection in moths  Long-distance communication in elephants  Catfish track the wake of their prey  Substrate-borne vibrations  Antlions detect substrate-borne vibrations  5.5 Some animals can detect electric or magnetic fields Electroreception  Sharks detect electric fields  Magnetoreception  5.6 Predator and prey sensory systems co-evolve Insect tympanal organs: an evolved antipredator adaptation  Predator-prey sensory system co-evolution in bats and moths   Chapter Summary and Beyond  Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features  Scientific Process 5.1 Antlion mechanoreception Applying the Concepts 5.1 How do mosquitoes find their victims?  Quantitative Reasoning 5.1 Hummingbird hawkmoths and sugar preference  Chapter 6. Communication  6.1 Communication occurs when a specialized signal from one individual influences the behavior of another Honeybees and the waggle dance  Odor or the waggle dance in bees  Auditory signals: alarm calls  Titmouse alarm calls  Information or influence?  6.2 The environment influences the evolution of signals Temperature affects ant chemical signals  Habitat light environment affects fish visual signals  Habitat structure affects bowerbird auditory signals  6.3 Signals often accurately indicate signaler phenotype and environmental conditions Signals as accurate indicators: theory  Aposematic coloration in frogs  Courtship signaling in spiders  Aggressive display and male condition in fighting fish  6.4 Signals can be inaccurate indicators when the fitness interests of signaler and receiver differ   Batesian mimicry and Enstaina salamanders  Aggressive mimicry in fangblenny fish  Intraspecific deception: false alarm calls  Topi antelope false alarm calls  Capuchin monkeys and inaccurate signals  6.5 Communication can involve extended phenotype signals Bowerbirds construct and decorate bowers  Sticklebacks decorate their nests  6.6 Communication networks affect signaler and receiver behavior  Squirrel eavesdropping  Audience effects in fighting fish  Chapter Summary and Beyond  Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 6.1 Signaling in male wolf spiders   Scientific Process 6.2 Fighting fish opercular display  Applying the Concepts 6.1 Pheromones and pest control   Applying the Concepts 6.2 Urban sounds affect signal production   Applying the Concepts 6.3 Human luxury brands as costly signals    Quantitative Reasoning 6.1 Sand hoods as extended phenotype signals   Chapter 7. Learning, Neuroethology, and Cognition   7.1 Learning allows animals to adapt to their environment Improved foraging efficiency in salamanders   Evolution of learning   Fiddler crab habituation   7.2 Learning is associated with neurological changes Neurotransmitters and learning in chicks   Dendritic spines and learning in mice   Avian memory of stored food  7.3 Animals learn associations between stimuli and responses   Classical conditioning   Pavlovian conditioning for mating opportunities in Japanese quail   Fish learn novel predators   Operant conditioning   Learning curves in macaques  Trial-and-error learning in bees  7.4 Social interactions facilitate learning Learned anti-predator behaviors in prairie dogs  Learning about food patches   Social information use in sticklebacks  Teaching  Ptarmigan hens teach chicks their diet   Tandem running in ants   7.5 Social learning can lead to the development of animal traditions and culture Foraging behavioral traditions in great tits  7.6 Animals vary in their cognitive abilities Tool use in capuchin monkeys  Problem solving and insight learning   Insight learning in keas  Numerical competency in New Zealand robins   Cognition and brain architecture in birds  Brain size and cognition in guppies  Cognitive performance and fitness in bowerbirds  Chapter Summary and Beyond   Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 7.1 Brain structure and food hoarding  Scientific Process 7.2 Fish learn predators   Applying the Concepts 7.1 Operation Migration and imprinting   Applying the Concepts 7.2 Dog training   Applying the Concepts 7.3 Human social learning about dangerous animals   Quantitative Reasoning 7.1 Aggressiveness and learning ability   Chapter 8. Foraging Behavior   8.1 Animals find food using a variety of sensory modalities Bees use multiple senses to enhance foraging efficiency   Gray mouse lemurs use multiple senses to find food   8.2 Visual predators find cryptic prey more effectively by learning a search image Trout and search images   8.3 The optimal diet model predicts the food types an animal should include in its diet The diet model  A graphical solution   Diet choice in northwestern crows   Ant foraging and the effect of nutrients   8.4 The optimal patch-use model predicts how long a forager should exploit a food patch The optimal patch-use model   Patch use by ruddy ducks   Optimal patch model with multiple costs   Fruit bats foraging on heterogeneous patches   Kangaroo rat foraging with variable predation costs  Incomplete information and food patch estimation  Bayesian foraging bumblebees  8.5 Some animals obtain food from the discoveries of others Spice finch producer-scrounger game   Chapter Summary and Beyond   Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 8.1 Prey detection by gray mouse lemurs   Scientific Process 8.2 Cryptic prey reduces predator efficiency   Scientific Process 8.3 Patch use by fruit bats   Applying the Concepts 8.1 Human patch-leaving decisions  Applying the Concepts 8.2 GUDs and conservation   Toolbox 8.1 Mathematical solution to the optimal diet model   Quantitative Reasoning 8.1 Foraging in different habitats   Chapter 9. Antipredator Behavior   9.1 Animals reduce predation risk by avoiding detection   Predator avoidance by cryptic coloration in crabs   Predators and reduced activity in lizards   Prey take evasive or aggressive action when detected  Startle display in butterflies  9.2 Many behaviors represent adaptive trade-offs involving predation risk Increased vigilance decreases feeding time  Vigilance and predation risk in elk   Rich but risky   Environmental conditions and predation risk in foraging redshanks   Mating and refuge use in fiddler crabs   Perceived predation risk affects reproductive behavior in sparrows  9.3 Living in groups can reduce predation risk The dilution effect and killifish   The selfish herd and vigilance behavior   Group size effect and the selfish herd hypothesis in doves   9.4 Some animals interact with predators to deter attack Predator harassment in ground squirrels   Pursuit deterrence and alarm signal hypotheses   Tail-flagging behavior in deer   Chapter Summary and Beyond   Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 9.1 Feeding trade-off in redshanks   Scientific Process 9.2 Predator harassment by California ground squirrels  Applying the Concepts 9.1 Human fear of predators   Applying the Concepts 9.2 Mitigating crop damage by manipulating predation risk    Quantitative Reasoning 9.1 Anti-predator vigilance in yellow-bellied marmots   Chapter 10. Dispersal and Migration   10.1 Dispersal reduces resource competition and inbreeding Density-dependent dispersal in earthworms   Food-related dispersal in water boatmen  Inbreeding avoidance in great tits   10.2 Reproductive success and public information affect breeding dispersal behavior Reproductive success and breeding dispersal in dragonflies   Public information and breeding dispersal in kittiwakes  10.3 Individuals migrate in response to changes in the environment Migration and changing resources  Resource variation and migration in neotropical birds  Heritability of migration behavior in Eurasian blackcaps  A model of the evolution of migration   Competition and migratory behavior of newts   Maintenance of polymorphism in migratory behavior   Alternative migratory behaviors in dippers  10.4 Environmental cues and compass systems are used for orientation when migrating Compass systems  Antennae and the sun compass system in monarchs   The magnetic compass in sea turtles   Multimodal orientation  10.5 Bicoordinate navigation allows individuals to identify their location relative to a goal Bicoordinate navigation and magnetic maps in sea turtles   Bicoordinate navigation in birds  Homing migration in salmon  Chapter Summary and Beyond   Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 10.1 Breeding dispersal in dragonflies  Scientific Process 10.2 The role of the antennae in the monarch butterfly sun compass   Applying the Concepts 10.1 Bird migration and global climate change   Applying the Concepts 10.2 Citizen scientists track fall migration flyways of monarch butterflies  Applying the Concepts 10.3 Human magnetic orientation   Toolbox 10.1 Emlen funnels    Quantitative Reasoning 10.1 Dispersing cane toads   Chapter 11. Habitat Selection, Territoriality, and Aggression   11.1 Resource availability and the presence of others can influence habitat selection The ideal free distribution model   The ideal free distribution model and guppies   The ideal free distribution model and pike   Cuckoos assess habitat quality   Conspecific attraction   Conspecific attraction and Allee effects in grasshoppers   Conspecific cueing in American redstarts   11.2 Individual condition and environmental factors affect territoriality Body condition and territoriality in damselflies  Environmental factors and territory size in parrotfish  11.3 Hormones influence aggression Winner-challenge effect in the California mouse   Challenge hypothesis and bystanders in fish  Juvenile hormone and wasp aggression  11.4 Game theory models explain how the decisions of opponents and resource value affect fighting behavior   The hawk-dove model  Wrestling behavior in red-spotted newts  Game theory assessment models  Fiddler crab contests over burrows   Chapter Summary and Beyond   Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 11.1 Ideal free guppies  Scientific Process 11.2 Conspecific attraction in grasshoppers   Applying the Concepts 11.1 Conspecific attraction and conservation  Applying the Concepts 11.2 Human aggression, testosterone, and sports   Applying the Concepts 11.3 Reducing duration and intensity of piglet fights   Toolbox 11.1 The hawk-dove model    Quantitative Reasoning 11.1 Trout territoriality   Chapter 12. Mating Behavior   12.1 Sexual selection favors characteristics that enhance reproductive success  Why two sexes?   Bateman's hypothesis and parental investment   Weapon size and mating success in dung beetles   Ornaments and mate choice in peafowl  Male mate choice in pipefish   The sensory bias hypothesis in guppies   12.2 Females select males to obtain direct material benefits Female choice and nuptial gifts in butterflies   Female choice and territory quality in lizards   12.3 Female mate choice can evolve via indirect benefits to offspring Fisherian runaway and good genes   Mate choice for good genes in tree frogs   Good genes and the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis   Mate choice fitness benefits in spiders   12.4 Sexual selection can also occur after mating Mate guarding in warblers   Sperm competition in tree swallows   Cryptic female choice   Inbreeding avoidance via cryptic female choice in spiders   12.5 Mate choice by females favors alternative reproductive tactics in males The evolution of alternative reproductive tactics   Conditional satellite males in tree frogs   ESS and sunfish sneaker males   12.6 Mate choice is affected by the mating decisions of others Mate copying in guppies   Mate copying in fruit flies   The benefit of mate copying   Nonindependent mate choice by male mosquitofish   Chapter Summary and Beyond  Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 12.1 Male mate choice in pipefish  Scientific Process 12.2 Mate copying in fruit flies   Applying the Concepts 12.1 Mate choice in conservation breeding programs   Applying the Concepts 12.2 Human mate choice copying   Quantitative Reasoning 12.1 Sneaking behavior in New Zealand giraffe weevils   Chapter 13. Mating Systems   13.1 Sexual conflict and environmental conditions affect the evolution of mating systems The evolution of mating systems   Mating systems in reed warblers   13.2 Biparental care favors the evolution of monogamy California mouse monogamy   Monogamy and biparental care in poison frogs   Monogamy without biparental care in snapping shrimp   13.3 Polygyny and polyandry evolve when one sex can defend multiple mates or the resources they seek Female defense polygyny in horses   Resource defense polygyny in blackbirds   Resource defense polygyny in carrion beetles   Male dominance polygyny: the evolution of leks-hotspots or hotshots?   Lekking behavior in the great snipe  Peafowl leks   Polyandry and sex-role reversal   13.4 The presence of social associations distinguishes polygynandry from promiscuity Polygynandry in European badgers   Promiscuity and scramble competition in seaweed flies and red squirrels   13.5 Social and genetic mating systems differ when extra-pair mating occurs Extra-pair mating in juncos   Marmot extra-pair mating  Chapter Summary and Beyond   Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 13.1 Biparental care and monogamy in poison frogs   Scientific Process 13.2 Monogamy in snapping shrimp  Applying the Concepts 13.1 Mating systems and conservation translocation programs  Applying the Concepts 13.2 Human mating systems   Toolbox 13.1 DNA fingerprinting    Quantitative Reasoning 13.1 Mating success of male red-backed fairy-wrens   Chapter 14. Parental Care  14.1 Parental care varies among species and reflects life history trade-offs Life history variation in fish   14.2 Sexual conflict is the basis for sex-biased parental care   Female-biased parental care   Paternity uncertainty and parental care in boobies   The evolution of male-only care   Paternity uncertainty and male-only care in sunfish   Paternity assurance and male care in water bugs   14.3 Parental care involves fitness trade-offs between current and future reproduction Parent-offspring conflict theory  Predation risk and parental care in songbirds   Egg guarding and opportunity costs of parental care in frogs   Current versus future reproduction in treehoppers   Incubation of eider eggs as a trade-off   Brood reduction and parent-offspring conflict   Hatch asynchrony and brood reduction in blackbirds   Brood reduction in fur seals   14.4 Brood parasitism reduces the cost of parental care and can result in a co-evolutionary arms race Conspecific brood parasitism in ducks  Interspecific brood parasitism and co-evolution  Acceptance or rejection of brown-headed cowbird eggs by hosts   14.5 Hormones regulate parental care Prolactin and maternal care in rats   Prolactin and incubation in penguins   Juvenile hormones and parental care in earwigs   Chapter Summary and Beyond   Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features  Scientific Process 14.1 Paternity certainty and parental care in bluegill sunfish  Scientific Process 14.2 Parental care costs in eiders   Scientific Process 14.3 Brood reduction in blackbirds  Applying the Concepts 14.1 Human life history trade-off   Applying the Concepts 14.2 Smallmouth bass defend their nest from exotic predators   Applying the Concepts 14.3 Food supplementation reduces brood reduction in endangered eagles    Quantitative Reasoning 14.1 Prey provisioning rates of American kestrals   Chapter 15. Sociality  15.1 Sociality can evolve when the fitness advantages of close associations exceed the costs Reduced search times for food  Foraging benefit: Information about distant food locations  Antipredator benefit of sociality in birds  Movement benefits: Efficient aerodynamics and hydrodynamics  Hydrodynamics in schools of juvenile grey mullet  Social heterosis in ants  The costs of sociality  Group size and food competition in red colobus and red-tailed guenons  Sociality and disease transmission in guppies  15.2 Dominance hierarchies reduce the social costs of aggression Dominance hierarchies and crayfish  Stable dominance hierarchies in baboons  15.3 Ecology and phylogeny influence the evolution of sociality Evolution of rodent sociality and habitat use  Body size, diet, and habitat influence sociality in antelope  15.4 Hormones regulate social behavior Social approach behavior and neuropeptides in goldfish  Mesotocin and pro-social behavior in finches  Social behavior in seals  Chapter Summary and Beyond  Chapter Review  Critical Thinking and Discussion  Features Scientific Process 15.1 Mesotocin and sociality in zebra finches  Applying the Concepts 15.1 Group aerodynamic advantages in cyclists   Applying the Concepts 15.2 Group size of social species in captivity    Quantitative Reasoning 15.1 Benefits of group foraging   Chapter 16. 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Discussing how different animal senses work, he also considers how they evolve, how they are shaped by the environment in which an animal lives, and the pioneering science that has uncovered how animals use their senses. Throughout, he celebrates the remarkable diversity of life, and shows how the study of sensory systems has shed light on some of the most important issues in animal behaviour, physiology, and evolution. He also describes evidence of the disruptive effects of human activities on the way other animals navigate the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea riveting new volume that explores the extraordinary senses of animals....This volume brings the wonders of these sensory worlds to a more general audience. * Michael J. 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