Titlebook: Animal Behaviour; Ecology and Evolutio C. J. Barnard Book 1983 C.J.Barnard 1983 behavior.biological.biology.decision-making.development.eco

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Motivation and Decision-Making,ve to think of the lion moving through the bush and coming upon a herd of wildebeest. On some occasions such an encounter results in the lion stalking and perhaps killing one of the wildebeest. On others, the lion walks casually past apparently ignoring the presence of potential food. A male chaffin

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From Genes to Behaviour,cs of an animal. Together these determine how the animal perceives and integrates environmental information and the range of behaviours with which it is able to respond. Since we know that physiological and anatomical features are coded in the animal’s genes and that their phenotypic form is the res

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Experience and Learning,ustrated the role of genes in shaping behaviour, we have not yet considered the effects of experience and development, nor the way these interact with genes to produce behaviour. In this chapter we shall examine these effects.

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Anti-Predator Behaviour,-sided coin. Apart from finding its own food, an animal must avoid becoming food itself. As we emphasise several times in this book, an animal’s behaviour is usually a compromise between several conflicting selection pressures. The degree to which an animal adapts to one pressure depends on how that

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Communication,, offspring and so on transmit signals to which animals respond in particular ways. In many cases these signals are the result of deliberate and complex actions which have evolved specifically to influence the behaviour of other animals. When we consider the relationship between a signal transmitted

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