Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 53

About this book

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 53 provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field. New chapters in this release include cooperative breeding in birds, the lessons learned of 20 years studying interactive singing in birds, pied babblers, mate choice in frogs, behavioural adaptations in dogs, and a review of whether hosts of avian brood parasites discriminate parasitic vs. predatory threats.

Contents

Preface / Marc Naguib
1. Countersinging in birds / David M. Logue
2. Do hosts of avian brood parasites discriminate parasitic vs. predatory threats? A meta-analysis / Shelby L. Lawson, Janice K. Enos, Nicholas D. Antonson, Sharon A. Gill and Mark E. Hauber
3. Dogs' (Canis lupus familiaris) behavioral adaptations to a human-dominated niche: A review and novel hypothesis / Clive D. L. Wynne
4. The evolution of delayed dispersal and different routes to breeding in social birds / Sjouke A. Kingma , Kat Bebbington, Niki Teunissen, Anne Peters and Jan Komdeur
5. Understanding the potential impact of climate change on the behaviour and demography of social species: The pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor) as a case study / Amanda R. Ridley, Elizabeth M. Wiley, Amanda R. Bourne, Susan J. Cunningham and Martha J Nelson-Flower

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Biography

Marc Naguib is a professor in Behavioural Ecology at the Animal Sciences Department of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He studied biology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and received his PhD (1995) at UNC-Chapel Hill, NC in the US. After his PhD held positions at the Freie Universität Berlin (1995-1999) and Bielefeld University (2000-2007) in Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (2008-2011), until he was appointed in 2011 as Chair of the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is specialized in vocal communication, social behaviour, animal personality and the effects of conditions experienced during early development on behaviour and life history traits, mainly using song birds as a model. His research group is also involved in animal welfare research using farm animals. He has served for many years on the council of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and of the Ethologische Gesellschaft. He published > 80 scientific publications and has been an Editor for Advances in the Study of Behaviour since 2003. Since 2014 he is Executive Editor.