Langbeschreibung
Animal Vigilance builds on the author's previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms underlying vigilance, as well as developing more fully the evolution and function of vigilance.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1: Overview of animal vigilance 2: Function of vigilance 3: Effects of ecological factors on vigilance 4: Vigilance and group size: Theory 5: Vigilance and group size: Empirical findings 6: Synchronization and coordination of vigilance 7: Vigilance when predation risk is relaxed 8: Vigilance in mixed-species groups 9: Development, causation and evolution of vigilance 10: Conclusions and future developments