Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Animals

Dr. H. Jane Brockmann is professor of zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests include ethology, behavioral ecology; the evolution and economics of behavior; nesting and mating behavior of horseshoe crabs and solitary wasps; and alternative strategies, conflict evolution of social behavior and sex ratios. Charles T. Snowdon is a Hilldale Professor of Psychology and Zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Currently editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, he was previously North American Editor of Animal Behaviour and has served as President of the Animal Behavior Society. He has held a Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health since 1977. His research interests are in vocal and chemical communication, reproductive behavioral biology, parental care and infant development in cooperatively breeding primates. His students and collaborators work in both captive and field settings. Professor Tim Roper has a Personal Chair in Animal Behaviour at the University of Sussex. He has been Secretary of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, a Council Member of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology and both European Editor and Executive Editor of Animal Behaviour. His research interest is in the behavioral ecology of social mammals, especially badgers.

"The series is designed for psychologists, zoologists, and psychiatrists, but will also be a valuable reference for workers in endocrinology, neurology, physiology, ethnology, and ecology." --Biological Abstracts

• 1 - Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection in the Goodeinae, a Clade of Viviparous Fish with Effective Female Mate ChoiceConstantino Macías Garcia and Alejandra Valero 2 - A Spatial Dance to the Music of Time in the Leks of Long-tailed ManakinsDavid B. McDonald3 - Host Use by Generalist and Specialist Brood Parasitic Cowbirds at Population and Individual LevelsMaría C. de Mársico, Bettina Mahler, Manuela Chomnalez, Alejandro G. Di Giácomo and Juan C. Reboreda4 - Dealing with Uncertainty: Flexible Reproductive Strategies in a Tropical Passerine Bird in an Unstable Ecological and Social EnvironmentMichael S. Webster, Jordan Karubian and Hubert Schwabl5 – Color in a Long-lived Tropical Seabird: Sexual Selection in a Life History ContextRoxana Torres and Alberto Velando6 - Intra-specific Variation in the Behavioral Ecology of a Tropical Carnivore, the Spotted HyenaKay E. Holekamp and Stephanie M. Dloniak7 – Ecology, Social Behavior and Conservation in ZebrasDaniel I. Rubenstein8 - Social Organization in Callithrix jacchus: Cooperation and CompetitionMaria Emília Yamamoto, Arrilton Araújo, Maria Bernardete C. de Sousa and Maria de Fátima Arruda9 - Ecological Determinants of Social Systems: Perspectives on the Functional Role of Roosting Ecology in the Social Behavior of Tent-roosting BatsGloriana Chaverri and Thomas H. Kunz