Analyzing Animal Societies: Quantitative Methods for Vertebrate Social Analysis

摘要: Animals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete resources, and mate. Within a society, relationships may be simple or complex usually vary considerably, both between different groups of individuals over time. These systems are fundamental to biological organization, animal societies central studies behavioral evolutionary biology. But, how do we study societies? How take observations animals fighting, grooming, forming produce realistic description model their societies?"Analyzing Animal Societies" presents conceptual framework analyzing behavior demonstrates put this into practice by collecting suitable data on the interactions associations so that can described, and, from these, models derived. In addition presenting tools, Hal Whitehead illustrates applicability using wide range real variety species - bats chimps dolphins birds. The techniques describes will profitably adopted scientists working with primates, cetaceans, birds, ungulates, but tools used invertebrates, amphibians, even humans."Analyzing become standard reference those studying vertebrate give these kind quality already in use other areas life sciences.