Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Second Edition builds upon the solid foundation established in the first edition. Updated sections include Host-Parasite Interactions, Vertebrate Social Behavior, and the introduction of 'overview essays' that boost the book's comprehensive detail.

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• Editorial Board
• Preface
• Permission Acknowledgments
• Overview Essays
• Animal Architecture
• Brood Parasitism
• Cooperative Breeding
• Game Theory
• Hormones and Behavior: Basic Concepts
• Integration of Proximate and Ultimate Causes
• Gene and Meme
• Foraging: A Fundamental Activity for All Life
• Welfare Concepts
• Historical Overviews
• Animal Behavior: Antiquity to the Sixteenth Century
• Animal Behavior: The Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries
• Comparative Animal Behavior – 1920–1973
• From Ethology to Behavioral Biology
• Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
• Psychology of Animals
• Neurobiology, Endocrinology and Behavior
• Future of Animal Behavior: Predicting Trends
• Animal Welfare and Conservation
• Sentience
• Indicators of Good Welfare
• Stereotypies and Other Abnormal Behavior in Welfare Assessment
• Indicators of Pain
• Slaughter Plants: Behavior and Welfare Assessment
• Stress, Health and Social Behavior
• Sickness Behavior in Animals: Implications for Health and Wellness
• Welfare and Interactions Between Humans and Companion Animals
• Ecology of Fear
• Overview of Animal Training: A Welfare Perspective
• Punishment
• Applications of Animal Behavior to Conservation
• Human Impact, Behavior and Conservation
• Conservation Behavior and Endocrinology
• Noise Pollution and Conservation
• Learning and Conservation
• Habitat Deterioration, Signals and Conservation
• Parasitism, Host Behavior, and Invasive Species
• Mating Interference Due to Introduction of Exotic Species
• Seed Dispersal and Conservation
• Captive Breeding, Conservation and Welfare
• Cognition
• Animal Arithmetic
• Animal Tool Use
• Categories and Concepts: Language-Related Competences in Non-Linguistic Species
• Chimpanzee and Bonobo
• Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees
• Collaborative Behavior
• Conflict Resolution
• Deception: Competition by Misleading Behavior
• Emotion and Social Cognition in Primates
• Empathetic Behavior
• Gestural Communication in the Great Apes
• Mental Time Travel: Can Animals Recall the Past and Plan for the Future?
• Metacognition and Metamemory in Non-Human Animals
• Non-Elemental Learning in Invertebrates
• Primate Archaeology
• Problem-Solving in Tool-Using and Non-Tool-Using Animals
• Rational Choice Behavior: Definitions and Evidence
• Responses to Death
• Time: What Animals Know
• Communication: Signal Modality
• Acoustical Signals – In Air and Water
• Bioluminescent Signals
• Chemical Signaling: Air, Water, and on the Substrate
• Electric Signals
• Multimodal Signaling
• Visual Signals Using Incident Light
• Vibrational Signals: Sounds Transmitted Through Solids
• Communication: Context
• Mating Signals, Including Advertisement and Courtship
• Parent–Offspring Signaling
• Signals in Conflict Resolution: Conventional Signals, Aggression and Territoriality
• Communication: Communication in Animal Groups
• Individual Signatures in Animal Groups: Cetaceans
• Telling Your Friends Where the Goodies are – Recruitment Signals for Food and Habitat
• Signals in Insect Social Organization
• Communication: Analysis of Animal Communication
• Communication Networks
• The Use of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in the Study of Evolution and Visual Signalling
• Signal Reliability and Intraspecific Deception
• Communication: Special Topics
• Adjustments to Facilitate Communication in Noisy Environments
• Culture and Learning: Bird Song
• Rhythm and Music in Animal Signals
• Vocal Communication Between Humans and Animals
• Evolution
• Adaptive Landscapes and Optimality
• Body Size and Sexual Dimorphism
• Cellular Epigenetics and Behavioral Evolution
• Cooperation and Sociality
• Development, Evolution and Behavior
• Evolution of the Nervous System in Relation to Behavior
• The Importance of Animal Behavior for Charles Darwin and Other 19th Century Theorists
• Indirect Genetic Effects
• Isolating Mechanisms and Speciation
• Methodology: Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Personality and Evolution
• Phylogenetic Inference and the Evolution of Behavior
• Quantitative Genetics of Behavior
• Reproductive Success
• Specialization
• Foraging
• Foraging: Section Overview
• Optimal Foraging Theory: An Introduction
• Habitat Selection
• Hunger and Satiety: Linking Mechanisms, Behavior and Evolution
• Patch Exploitation
• Animal Movements – An Optimal Foraging Theory Approach
• Food Hoarding
• Internal Energy Storage
• How Variance and Risk Affect Foraging Behavior
• Aposematism as a Defence Against Predation
• Group Foraging
• Foraging Behavior as a Cornerstone of Population and Community Ecology
• Optimal Foraging and Plant-Pollinator Co-Evolution
• Optimal Foraging Theory: Application and Inspiration in Human Endeavors Outside Biology
• Genes and Behavior
• Studying the Genetics of Behavior in the Genomics Era
• Evolution of Behavior: Genotype to Phenotype
• Evolutionary Behavioral Genetics
• The Oxytocin System: Single Gene Effects on Social Behavior Across Species
• Drosophila Behavior Genetics
• Paramecium Behavioral Genetics
• Caste in Social Insects: Genetic Influences Over Caste Determination
• Nasonia Wasp Behavior Genetics
• Orthopteran Behavioral Genetics
• Behavioral Genetics of Social Insects
• Unicolonial Ants: Loss of Colony Identity
• Behavioral Genetics of Dog Breeds
• Genetics of Animal and Bird Migration
• MHC Genes and Mate Choice
• Animal Personalities and Behavioral Genetics
• Hormones and Behavior
• Singing Behavior in Fishes: Hormones, Neurons, and Evolution
• Communication and Hormones
• Sex Change in Reef Fishes: Behavior and Physiology
• Male Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
• Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Male Mammals
• Female Sexual Behavior: Hormonal Basis in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
• Female Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Mammals
• Evolution of Ideas on the Neural Control of Sexual Behavior
• Hormonal and Neuromuscular Regulation of Courtship Displays
• Invertebrate Hormones and Behavior
• Reproductive Skew, Cooperative Breeding, and Eusociality in Vertebrates: Hormones
• Pair-Bonding, Mating Systems and Hormones
• Experimental Approaches to Hormones and Behavior: Invertebrates
• Aquatic Invertebrate Endocrine Disruption
• Maternal Effects on Behavior
• Parental Behavior and Hormones in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
• Parental Behavior and Hormones in Mammals
• Tadpole Behavior and Metamorphosis
• Endocrine and Behavioral Regulation of Water and Salt Intake in Vertebrates
• Food Intake: Behavioral Endocrinology
• Aggression and Territoriality
• Fight or Flight Responses
• Behavioral Endocrinology of Migration
• Molt in Birds and Mammals: Hormones and Behavior
• Hibernation, Daily Torpor and Estivation in Mammals and Birds: Behavioral Aspects
• Circadian and Circannual Rhythms and Hormones
• Wintering Strategies
• Seasonality: Hormones and Behavior
• Vertebrate Endocrine Disruption
• Memory, Learning, Hormones and Behavior
• Immune Systems and Sickness Behavior
• Hormones and Sleep
• Host-parasite Interactions
• Propagule Behavior and Parasite Transmission
• Ectoparasite Behavior
• Intermediate Host Behavior
• Disease: Parasite-Modified Vector Behavior
• Evolution of Parasite-Induced Behavioral Alterations
• Parasite-Induced Behavioral Change: Mechanisms
• Avoidance of Parasites
• Self-Medication: Passive Prevention and Active Treatment
• Nutrition and Infectious Disease
• Parasites and Sexual Selection
• Reproductive Behavior and Parasites: Invertebrates
• Reproductive Behavior and Parasites: Vertebrates
• Sex-Biased Parasitism
• Social Behavior and Parasites
• Social Immunity
• Animal Migration and Parasitism
• Immune Priming and Trans-Generational Protection From Parasites
• Landmark Studies
• Aplysia
• Betta Splendens
• Blue Tits
• Boobies
• Bowerbirds
• Chimpanzees
• Cockroaches
• Dictyostelium, the Social Amoeba
• Domestic Dogs
• Frustration in Hens
• Grey Parrots: A Studies in Avian Cognition
• Herring Gulls
• Honeybees
• Konrad Lorenz
• Locusts
• Niko Tinbergen
• Norway Rats
• Octopus
• Pheidole Ants: Sociobiology of a Highly Diverse Genus
• Pigeons
• Rhesus Macaques
• The Sexual and Social Behavior of the Barn Swallow
• Sharks
• Spotted Hyenas
• Swordtails and Platyfishes
• Threespine Stickleback
• Túngara Frog: A Model for Sexual Selection and Communication
• Tribolium
• Turtles: Freshwater
• White-Crowned Sparrow
• William Donald Hamilton
• Wolves
• Zebra Finches
• Zebrafish
• Learning and Teaching
• Costs of Learning
• Decision-Making and Learning: The Peak Shift Behavioral Response
• Habitat Imprinting and Natal Habitat Preference Induction
• Mate Choice and Learning
• Play
• Spatial Memory
• Apes: Social Learning
• Avian Social Learning
• Culture
• Fish Social Learning
• Imitation: Cognitive Implications
• Insect Social Learning
• Mammalian Social Learning: Non-Primates
• Monkeys and Prosimians: Social Learning
• Social Learning: Theory
• Vocal Learning
• Social Information Use
• Pavlovian Learning in Invertebrates
• Habituation
• Methodology
• Assessment of Welfare and Needs
• Biologging and Remote-Sensing of Behavior
• Data Coding, Measurement Error, and Reliability
• Dominance Relationships, Dominance Hierarchies and Rankings
• Endocrinology and Behavior: Methods
• Ethograms, Activity Profiles, and Energy Budgets
• Experimental Design: Basic Concepts
• Experiment, Observation, and Modeling in the Lab and Field
• Field Techniques in Hormones and Behavior
• Life Histories and Network Function
• Neuroethology: Methods
• Sequence Analysis and Transition Models
• Spatial Orientation and Time: Methods
• The Use of Playbacks in Behavioral Experiments
• Use of Robotics in the Study of Animal Behavior
• Migration and Orientation
• Vertical Migration of Aquatic Animals
• Fish Migration
• Sea Turtles: Navigation and Orientation
• Insect Migration
• Insect Navigation
• Magnetic Compasses in Insects
• Amphibia: Orientation and Migration
• Bat Migration
• Orientation, Navigation and Homing in Bats
• Bird Migration
• Irruptive Migration
• Migratory Connectivity
• Magnetic Orientation in Migratory Songbirds
• Maps and Compasses
• Pigeon Homing as a Model Case of Goal-Oriented Navigation
• Neurons and Senses
• Taste: Invertebrates
• Taste: Vertebrates
• Smell: Vertebrates
• Invertebrate Pheromones: Models for Neuroethology
• Hearing: Insects
• Ears and Hearing in Vertebrates
• Vibration Perception: Vertebrates
• Invertebrate Vision
• Vision: Vertebrates
• Infrared Reception – Invertebrates
• Thermoreception: Vertebrates
• Electroreception in Vertebrates and Invertebrates
• Active Electroreception: Vertebrates
• Magnetoreception
• Neuroethology of Sound Localization in Birds
• Bat Neuroethology
• Vocal–Acoustic Communication in Fishes: Neuroethology
• Acoustic Communication in Insects: Neuroethology
• Crabs and Their Visual World
• Insect Flight and Walking: Neuroethological Basis
• Leech Behavioral Choice: Neuroethology
• Nematode Learning and Memory: Neuroethology
• Predator Evasion
• Parasitoid Wasps: Neuroethology
• Sociogenomics
• Neurobiology of Pair Bonding
• Neurobiology of Reproductive Behavior, The Role of Neurogenesis
• Predator-Prey Interactions
• Predator Avoidance: Mechanisms
• Defensive Avoidance
• Defensive Coloration
• Group Living
• Anti-Predatory Vigilance
• Risk Allocation in Anti-Predator Behavior
• Defensive Morphology
• Defensive Chemicals
• Predation Risk and Life Histories
• Defensive Risk-Taking in Animals
• Escape from Predators
• Co-Evolution of Predators and Prey
• Trade-Offs in Anti-Predator Behavior
• Strategies of Predators and Their Prey in Large Mammal Predatory Interactions
• Games Played by Predators and Prey
• Intraguild Predation
• Antipredator Benefits From Heterospecifics
• Parasitoids
• Empirical Studies of Predator and Prey Behavior
• Reproductive Behavior
• Flexible Mate Choice
• Mate Choice in Males and Females
• Cryptic Female Choice
• Rape, Forced and Aggressively Coerced Copulation
• Compensation in Reproduction
• Differential Allocation
• Sex Allocation, Sex Ratios and Reproduction
• Bateman׳s Principles: Original Experiment and Modern Data For and Against
• Infanticide
• Helpers and Reproductive Behavior in Birds and Mammals
• Sperm Competition
• Gamete Sharing by “Cloacal Kissing”
• Bird With Penises: Copulation Mechanics and Behavior
• Nest Building in Birds
• Mating Systems in Mammals
• Reproductive Behavior in the Hyaenidae
• Sex in Cetaceans
• Cetacean Mating Systems
• Mating Systems of New World Monkeys
• Mating Systems of Lemurs
• Mating Systems of Old World Monkeys
• Sex Changing Organisms and Reproductive Behavior
• Hermaphrodite Mating Systems
• Sexual Selection and Speciation
• Social Behavior
• Ant, Bee and Wasp Social Evolution
• Social Evolution in Termites
• Social Evolution in “Other” Insects and Arachnids
• Spiders: Evolution of Group Living and Social Behavior
• Crustacean Social Evolution
• Microbes: Social Evolution
• Subsociality and the Evolution of Eusociality
• Kin Selection and Relatedness
• Division of Labor
• Dance Language
• Caste Determination in Arthropods
• Sex, Genomic Imprinting and Social Evolution
• Aging and Behavior in Honey Bees
• Colony Founding in Social Insects
• Reproductive Skew
• Queen-Queen Conflict in Eusocial Insect Colonies
• Queen–Worker Conflicts Over Colony Sex Ratio
• Worker Conflict and Worker Policing
• Collective Intelligence in Social Animals
• Consensus Decisions
• Nest Site Choice in Social Insects
• Group Movement
• Parasites and Insects: Aspects of Social Behavior
• Social Behavior and Infectious Disease
• Disease Transmission and Networks
• Environmental Uncertainty and Social Behavior