Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals
The last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal phenomena, including collective behaviour and social networks. In ‘Animal Social Behaviour’, authors Ashley Ward and Michael Webster integrate the most up-to-date em
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Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals
Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals
Ashley Ward • Mike Webster
Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals
Ashley Ward School of Life and Environmental Sciences The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia
Mike Webster School of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews Fife UK
ISBN 978-3-319-28583-2 ISBN 978-3-319-28585-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28585-6
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‘For Alison, Sammy and Freddy’ (AJWW) ‘To my parents and Kirsty Owen’ (MMW)
Acknowledgements
A number of people have aided us in the production of this book. First of all, we would like to thank Claus-Dieter Bachem and Claudia Panuschka, our editors at Springer, for their patience and guidance. We thank our fellow researchers, Christos Ioannou, Jill Matteo, Chris Reid, Bill Romey, Tim Schaerf, Cedric Seuer, David Sumpter, Elizabeth Tibbetts and Dominic Wright, who read chapter drafts and provided invaluable criticism, comments and feedback. Stacey Lee-Jenkins and Amanda Ridley provided helpful information for the section on adoption and kidnapping behaviour for the ‘Group Size’ chapter. Jens Krause and James HerbertRead read the entire manuscript, and we are especially grateful to them for their comments. More generally, we are thankful to all of our colleagues in the fields of animal behaviour, ecology and evolution for their inspiring and exciting research, which spurred us to take on the task of writing this book in the first place and enthused us enough to see it through to completion.
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Contents
1 Sociality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 An
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