Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 78
Page 200
... BENEFITS of mobbing a predator , namely , the potential increase in individual fitness that comes from saving some currently existing offspring . If we could measure the costs and benefits of a trait in the same currency of fitness ( in ...
... BENEFITS of mobbing a predator , namely , the potential increase in individual fitness that comes from saving some currently existing offspring . If we could measure the costs and benefits of a trait in the same currency of fitness ( in ...
Page 467
... benefits of social living ; for social species , the costs are more than matched by certain of the advantages of sociality . colony ( Figure 1 ) . The primary benefit to The Evolution of Societies THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF SOCIAL LIVING.
... benefits of social living ; for social species , the costs are more than matched by certain of the advantages of sociality . colony ( Figure 1 ) . The primary benefit to The Evolution of Societies THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF SOCIAL LIVING.
Page 472
... benefits of social living include mutual defense of cap- tured prey against competitors ( Figure 4 ) and the joint protection and feeding of offspring of the pride by its members . Given this array of benefits , why do lions ever live ...
... benefits of social living include mutual defense of cap- tured prey against competitors ( Figure 4 ) and the joint protection and feeding of offspring of the pride by its members . Given this array of benefits , why do lions ever live ...
Contents
NATURAL SELECTION | 5 |
Alternative Hypotheses | 11 |
Experimental Tests of Evolutionary Predictions | 17 |
Copyright | |
59 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ability activity adaptive adult allele animals anole ants aphids attack auditory bank swallows bees Behavioral Ecology benefits biological birds black-headed gull brain breeding burrow butterfly Chapter colony Color copulate courtship cues cycle damselfly defense detect developmental dominant ecological effects eggs energy environment environmental evolution evolutionary evolved example experience feeding female's fertilize Figure flies foraging gametes ganglion genes genotype gulls habitat honeybee hormonal human hypothesis inclusive fitness individuals infanticide insects interactions kin selection kittiwake larvae living male's males and females mate mechanisms moth mutant nervous system nest neural neurons offspring parental pattern Photograph physiological polygyny population potential predators prediction prey produce progeny rats receptive receptors relatively reproductive success response result selection sensory sexual sexual reproduction sexual selection signals slug snakes social Sociobiology song sounds species sperm stimulation survival territory testosterone toad traits visual wasp white-crowned sparrow wings workers young