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Rodent Societies
Jerry O. Wolff (Ed.)
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Description for Rodent Societies
Paperback. Integrates the state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting conservation and management strategies to preserve them. This title begins with a summary of the evolution, phylogeny, and biogeography of social and nonsocial rodents. Num Pages: 744 pages, 69 halftones, 95 line drawings. BIC Classification: PSVP; PSVW7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1446.
"Rodent Societies" synthesizes and integrates the current state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting emerging conservation and management strategies to preserve them. It begins with a summary of the evolution, phylogeny, and biogeography of social and nonsocial rodents, providing a historical basis for comparative analyses. Subsequent sections focus on group-living rodents and characterize their reproductive behaviors, life histories and population ecology, genetics, neuroendocrine mechanisms, behavioral development, cognitive processes, communication mechanisms, cooperative and uncooperative behaviors, antipredator strategies, comparative socioecology, diseases, and conservation. Using the highly diverse and well-studied ... Read more
"Rodent Societies" synthesizes and integrates the current state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting emerging conservation and management strategies to preserve them. It begins with a summary of the evolution, phylogeny, and biogeography of social and nonsocial rodents, providing a historical basis for comparative analyses. Subsequent sections focus on group-living rodents and characterize their reproductive behaviors, life histories and population ecology, genetics, neuroendocrine mechanisms, behavioral development, cognitive processes, communication mechanisms, cooperative and uncooperative behaviors, antipredator strategies, comparative socioecology, diseases, and conservation. Using the highly diverse and well-studied ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
744
Condition
New
Number of Pages
610
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226905372
SKU
V9780226905372
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About Jerry O. Wolff (Ed.)
Jerry O. Wolff is professor of biology at St. Cloud State University. Paul W. Sherman is professor of neurology and behavior at Cornell University.
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