The Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC) has hypothesised that much human
decision-making can be described by simple algorithmic process models (heuristics). This …

When exploiting the environment, animals have to discriminate, track, and integrate salient
spatial cues to navigate and identify goal sites. Actually, they have to know what can be …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Why are most animal signals reliable? This is the central problem for evolutionary biologists
interested in signals. A number of theoretical answers have been proposed and empirical …

Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the
nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition." This reviewer had to be …

Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the
perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of …

456 Richard L. Hutto tridge, 1978, for a similar perspective). For the purposes of this report, a
habitat will be defined as a spatially contiguous vegetation type that appears more or less …

Ecology is characterized by a rapidly growing complexity and diversity of facts, aspects,
examples, and observations. What is badly needed is the development of common patterns …

Extensive observations of foraging female lions reveal that two group sizes maximize
foraging success during the season of prey scarcity: one female and five or six females …

This is a book about proximate mechanisms. Although some theoreti cal structure is used to
introduce the subject, the intent is to offer a comprehensive view of the mechanistic side of …