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This volume aims to illuminate long-standing questions about cause-and-effect relations between an animal's behaviour and its environment. The contributors examine how various animals identify and use environmental resources and deal with ecological constraints.

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Part 1 Psychological and cognitive foundations: a synthetic approach to the study of animal intelligence, Alan C. Kamil; learning and foraging - individuals, groups and populations, John R. Krebs and Alastair J. Inman; spatial cognition and navigation in insects, Fred C. Dyer; information processing and the evolutionary ecology of cognitive architecture, Leslie A. Real; optimizing learning and its effect on evolutionary change in behaviour, Daniel R. Papaj. Part 2 Communication. (Part contents).

Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 11 January 1994
      ISBN-13 9780226705972
      978-0226705972
      ISBN-10 0226705978
      Also in:
      Applied ecology Evolution / Evolutionary biology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume aims to illuminate long-standing questions about cause-and-effect relations between an animal's behaviour and its environment. The contributors examine how various animals identify and use environmental resources and deal with ecological constraints.

      Table of Contents
      Part 1 Psychological and cognitive foundations: a synthetic approach to the study of animal intelligence, Alan C. Kamil; learning and foraging - individuals, groups and populations, John R. Krebs and Alastair J. Inman; spatial cognition and navigation in insects, Fred C. Dyer; information processing and the evolutionary ecology of cognitive architecture, Leslie A. Real; optimizing learning and its effect on evolutionary change in behaviour, Daniel R. Papaj. Part 2 Communication. (Part contents).

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