Animal Vigilance: Monitoring Predators and Competitors

by Guy Beauchamp

Overview

Animal Vigilance builds on the author’s previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms underlying vigilance, as well as developing more fully the evolution and function of vigilance.

Animal vigilance has been at the forefront of research on animal behavior for many years, but no comprehensive review of this topic has existed. Students of animal behavior have focused on many aspects of animal vigilance, from models of its adaptive value to empirical research in the laboratory and in the field. The vast literature on vigilance is widely dispersed with often little contact between models and empirical work and between researchers focusing on different taxa such as birds and mammals. Animal Vigilance fills this gap in the available material.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128019832
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/08/2015
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Guy Beauchamp is a behavioural ecologist specializing on social foraging in birds. He has written over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has been studying sandpipers for the last 10 years. He currently works as a research officer at the Veterinary College of the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Table of Contents

1: Overview of animal vigilance2: Function of vigilance3: Effects of ecological factors on vigilance4: Vigilance and group size: Theory5: Vigilance and group size: Empirical findings6: Synchronization and coordination of vigilance7: Vigilance when predation risk is relaxed8: Vigilance in mixed-species groups9: Development, causation and evolution of vigilance10: Conclusions and future developments

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The only comprehensive review of animal vigilance, authored by a top expert in the field

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"This is the first book devoted to this thriving field of biology...This volume goes beyond capturing the current state of the field and encourages the field to grow in new directions…I highly recommend this book both as an entry point to the vast literature and as a discussion starter for new research." —The Quarterly Review of Biology

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