Social Recognition in Invertebrates

The Knowns and the Unknowns

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

This book uses a wide range of case studies from different invertebrate taxa to describe the numerous forms of social recognition occurring in this large group of animals and traces the evolution of this cognitive ability. an animal assigns a conspecific to an appropriate class of animals), and true individual recognition (i.e.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-06-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:594 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:266
Upplaga:2015
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319175980

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Djurens beteende inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Zoologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Djurböcker inom Djur och Natur

Recensioner i media

“This important book brings together chapters on a comprehensive range of invertebrate taxa, reviewing the evidence in each taxon for social recognition and mechanisms. … This book will encourage and enable further high-quality research in social recognition in invertebrates.” (Tristram D. Wyatt, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 92 (3), September, 2017)

Innehållsförteckning

Presentation of “Social recognition in invertebrates”.- Social recognition in invertebrates: an introduction for the readers.- Social recognition in annelids and the evolution of social recognition and cognitive abilities by sexual selection.- Individual recognition in stomatopods.- To what extent can freshwater crayfish recognise other crayfish? Social Recognition in Hermit Crabs.- Social behavior and recognition in decapod shrimps, with emphasis on the Caridea.- Social behavior in amphipods – an overview.- Social recognition in the Arachnida.- Visual recognition in social wasps.- Nestmate recognition in eusocial insects: The honeybee as a model system.- Ontogeny of nestmate recognition in social hymenoptera.- Communication and Social Regulation in Termites.- Recognition mechanisms in the biparental burying beetle.