The review aims to provide a simple conceptual framework on which to place recent studies
of hatching asynchrony in altricial birds and to assess the evidence used in support of …

Publisher Summary The subject matter of evolutionary game theory is the analysis of conflict
and cooperation in animals and plants. Originally, game theory was developed as a theory …

Parental care is a trait that shows tremendous diversity both within and across different
animal taxa, and is an important topic in evolutionary biology and behavioural ecology …

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

Models of Adaptive Behaviour sets out a framework for adaptive explanations of behaviour,
and applies this to give analyses of a range of biological issues such as energetic gain …

In the past twenty years there have been many new developments in the study of animal
behaviour: for example, more sophisticated methods of neurophysiology; more precise …

At first sight just a small brown bird, the dunnock's unobtrusive appearance belies its
extraordinary behaviour and mating patterns. In this book Nick Davies gives a full account of …

In the development of social dominance, constitutional behavioural characteristics may play
an important role apart from morphological traits. Previous work has shown that juvenile …

Conflict between parents over care of young arises when the young benefit from the effort of
both parents, but each parent suffers a reduction in future reproductive success as a …

We outline and develop current theory on how inherent genetic conflicts of interest between
the various family members can affect the flow of parental investment from parents to …