ENGLISH

Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Long Term Studies of Ecology and Behaviour

By Peter B. Stacey (editor) , Walter D. Koenig (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
9780511752452, 9780521372985, 9780521378901
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511752452
Google Books ID
YSiz0FzSTX0C
Open Library ID
OL7738507M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32745256 bytes)
Pages
633\633
Topic
Biology Zoology
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00
Биологические дисциплины;Зоология;Орнитология

Description

Stacey and Koenig discuss the phenomenon of cooperative breeding among birds, an unusual kind of social behavior common to only a few hundred species worldwide, in which individuals other than the male-female pairs help to raise the young of a single nest or den. Because certain individuals aid in raising offspring which are not their own, cooperative breeding gives rise to some of the clearest examples of altruism among animals. This unique breeding behavior is of interest to evolutionary biologists and behavioral ecologists since such species exhibit some of the most unusual and bizarre social behavior observed anywhere in the animal kingdom. The studies are all long term and consequently the book summarizes some of the most extensive studies of the behavior of marked individuals ever undertaken. Graduate students and research workers in ornithology, sociobiology, behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology will find much of value in this book.

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