Animal Social Networks by Jens Krause,Richard James,Daniel Franks,Darren Croft
By Jens Krause,Richard James,Daniel Franks,Darren Croft
behaviours. those comprise discovering and selecting a sexual companion, constructing and preserving cooperative relationships, and interesting in foraging and anti-predator behavior.
This novel textual content presents an summary of the insights that community research has supplied into significant organic techniques, and the way it has superior our figuring out of the social service provider of numerous vital taxonomic teams. It brings jointly researchers from a variety of disciplines with the purpose of offering either an summary of the ability of the community method for knowing styles and approach in animal populations, in addition to outlining how present methodological constraints and
challenges will be overcome.
Animal Social Networks is especially geared toward graduate point scholars and researchers within the fields of ecology, zoology, animal behaviour, and evolutionary biology yet can be of curiosity to social scientists.
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