Social Behaviour In Animals : With Special Reference To Vertebtes [Hardcover]... - Hardcover

Social Behaviour in Animals : With Special Reference to Vertebrates

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Mating behaviour. 3. Family and group life. 4. Fighting. 5. Analysis of social co operation. 6. Relations between different species. 7. The growth or social organizations. 8. Evolutionary aspects of social organization. 9. Some hints for research in animal sociology. Bibliography. Index. This book is not intended as an exhaustive review of facts. Its aim is rather the presentation of a biological approach to the phenomena of social behaviour. This type of approach was revived by Lorenz's pioneer studies. It is characterized by emphasis on the need for renewed and careful observation of the huge variety of social phenomena occurring in nature by emphasis on a balanced study of the three main biological problems function causation evolution by emphasis on an appropriate sequence of description qualitative analysis quantitative analysis and finally by emphasis on the need for continuous re synthesis. Thus Allee's works are mainly concerned with the various uses animals derive from crowding there is little mention of the causes underlying social co operation and when dealing with these causes attention is focused entirely on the phenomenon of peck order an interesting but minor aspect of social organization. Author wanted to formulate and emphasize some new theories which he consider important because of their great heuristic value. Thus the significance of intra specific fighting the causation of threat and courtship behaviour the functions of releases and other problems to which the new approach has made distinct contributions have been presented in some detail and an attempt has been made to give them their proper place in the complex system of problems. 150 pp. Artikel-Nr. 61023

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