Encyclopaedia of Zoological Characteristics and Behaviour of Animals, Their Nature, Characteristics and Responses (Animal Sensitivity and Behaviour)

by Hubert Lincoln

Overview

Animals have evolved specific behaviours they use in certain contexts such as in resource defense. Reproduction and environmental exploration. Such behaviours and their variations have fundamental implications for an individual's ability to acquire and defend resources, such as territories, nest sites and mates and thus are important life history and fitness components. Understanding causes and consequences of these behavioral traits in response to ecological and social demands and constraints is essential in understanding evolutionary processes leading to and maintaining variation in these characteristics. Individuals of many species have been shown to differ consistently in several behaviorally relevant characteristics while traditionally, These differences were seen as random noise around an adaptive mean behavioural ecologists have increasingly become aware that variation in these traits can be adaptive on its own. Animal personality describes the entirety of these so called personality traits within a specific population, including genetic and neuroendocrine differences. In order to survive and thrive in specific environments, animal species have developed a host of amazing characteristics that help them find food protect themselves, cope with tough environments, and reproduce. Some of these are physical characteristics like sharp beaks bright coloration, or body types that can take advantage of thermals and updrafts. Others are behavioural. These include building nests, communicating with one another, and ways of finding food Migration is a behavioural adaptation central to this project. This book provides a comprehensive, should prove to be useful resource. It is intended that this compendium will be a well-informed and indispensable companion to the students and researchers of zoology and allied fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789390365692
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Hubert Lincoin completed his D. Phil. In 1992 to become an assistant professor. He remained an assistant professor until 2003 when he was given a position as associate professor. Six years later, Lincoln published his first book, in which he described the basics of human and animal behaviour as a function of survival of not only the individual, but also their families and their species as a whole. Becoming a professor in zoology in 2010, he began giving lectures and speeches at a number of universities and events around the world. His written and spoken work has also earned him multiple honours and awards