Author: Pepper Trail
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Category : Acorn woodpecker
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Ecological Correlates of Social Organization in a Communally Breeding Bird, the Acorn Woodpecker, Melanerpes Formicivorus
Author: Pepper Trail
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Category : Acorn woodpecker
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Publisher:
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Category : Acorn woodpecker
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Population Ecology of the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker
Author: Walter D. Koenig
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691084640
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Ever since the acorn woodpecker was observed and described by Spanish explorers, its behavior--particularly the unique habit of caching acorns in specialized storage trees or granaries--has impressed observers. Acorn woodpeckers are also one of the few temperate zone species in which young are reared communally in family groups. This demographic study investigates the complexities of acorn storage and group living in acorn woodpeckers at Hastings Reservation in central coastal California. It is one of the most thorough studies of any avian social system to date.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691084640
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Ever since the acorn woodpecker was observed and described by Spanish explorers, its behavior--particularly the unique habit of caching acorns in specialized storage trees or granaries--has impressed observers. Acorn woodpeckers are also one of the few temperate zone species in which young are reared communally in family groups. This demographic study investigates the complexities of acorn storage and group living in acorn woodpeckers at Hastings Reservation in central coastal California. It is one of the most thorough studies of any avian social system to date.
Cooperative Breeding in Birds
Author: Peter B. Stacey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521378901
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Cooperative breeding is an unusual kind of social behaviour, found in a few hundred species worldwide, in which individuals other than the parents help raise young. Understanding the apparently altruistic behaviour of helpers has provided numerous challenges to evolutionary biologists. This book includes detailed first-hand summaries of many of the major empirical studies of cooperatively breeding birds. It provides comparative information on the demography, social behaviour and behavioural ecology of these unusual species and explores the diversity of ideas and the controversies which have developed in this field. The studies are all long-term and consequently the book summarises some of the most extensive studies of the behaviour of marked individuals ever undertaken. Graduate students and research workers in ornithology, sociobiology, behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology will find much of value in this book.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521378901
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Cooperative breeding is an unusual kind of social behaviour, found in a few hundred species worldwide, in which individuals other than the parents help raise young. Understanding the apparently altruistic behaviour of helpers has provided numerous challenges to evolutionary biologists. This book includes detailed first-hand summaries of many of the major empirical studies of cooperatively breeding birds. It provides comparative information on the demography, social behaviour and behavioural ecology of these unusual species and explores the diversity of ideas and the controversies which have developed in this field. The studies are all long-term and consequently the book summarises some of the most extensive studies of the behaviour of marked individuals ever undertaken. Graduate students and research workers in ornithology, sociobiology, behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology will find much of value in this book.
Helping Communal Breeding in Birds
Author: J. L. Brown
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400858569
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical studies and summarizes the wide array of results and interpretations made by others. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400858569
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical studies and summarizes the wide array of results and interpretations made by others. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
General Technical Report RM.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Competition and Cooperation in the Communally Breeding Acorn Woodpecker (melanerpes Formicivorus)
Author: Ronald Lane Mumme
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Woodpeckers
Author: Hans Winkler
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135043
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
This comprehensive volume covers all of the 198 species of woodpeckers in the world. Each is beautifully illustrated in colour in its various plumages and described vividly and accurately, with complete information on its identifying characteristics, similar species, distribution, migration, habitat, geographical variations, voice, habits, food, and breeding behaviour. References for further research are also included. Woodpeckers is an essential addition to any birder's library.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135043
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
This comprehensive volume covers all of the 198 species of woodpeckers in the world. Each is beautifully illustrated in colour in its various plumages and described vividly and accurately, with complete information on its identifying characteristics, similar species, distribution, migration, habitat, geographical variations, voice, habits, food, and breeding behaviour. References for further research are also included. Woodpeckers is an essential addition to any birder's library.
Wildlife Abstracts
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Literature on Wildlife Research in the Madrean Archipelago, 1800s-1994
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Wildlife Review
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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