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Author Berger, J,
Title Social systems, resources, and phylogenetic inertia: an experimental test and its limitations Type Book Chapter
Year 1988 Publication Ecology of Social Behavior Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue (up) Pages 157-186
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Publisher Academic Press Place of Publication San Diego Editor Slobochikoff, C.N.
Language Summary Language Original Title Ecology of Social Behavior
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2234
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Author Miller, R.
Title Band organisation and stability in Red Desert feral horses Type Book Chapter
Year 1979 Publication Proceedings of a Conference on the Ecology and Behavior of Feral Equids Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue (up) Pages 113-123
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Publisher University of Wyoming. Place of Publication Laramie Editor R.H. Denniston
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2361
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Author de Waal, F. B.
Title Dominance “style” and primate social organization. Type Book Chapter
Year 1989 Publication Comparative Socioecology Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue (up) Pages 243-263
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Publisher Blackwell Science Place of Publication Editor Standen, V.; Foley, R. A.
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Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 2864
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Author Krama, T. [1]; Krams, I. [2]
Title Cost of mobbing call to breeding pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca Type Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication Behavioral Ecology Abbreviated Journal Behav. Ecol.
Volume 16 Issue (up) Pages 37-40
Keywords ntipredator behavior, Ficedula hypoleuca, mobbing calls, mobbing costs, pied flycatcher.
Abstract Mobbing signals advertise the location of a stalking predator to all prey in an area and recruit them into the inspection aggregation. Such behavior usually causes the predator to move to another area. However, mobbing calls could be eavesdropped by other predators. Because the predation cost of mobbing calls is poorly known, we investigated whether the vocalizations of the mobbing pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca, a small hole nesting passerine, increase the risk of nest predation. We used mobbing calls of pied flycatchers to examine if they could lure predators such as the marten, Martes martes. This predator usually hunts by night and may locate its mobbing prey while resting nearby during the day. Within each of 56 experimental plots, from the top of one nest-box we played back mobbing sounds of pied flycatchers, whereas blank tapes were played from the top of another nest-box. The trials with mobbing calls were carried out before sunset. We put pieces of recently abandoned nests of pied flycatchers and a quail, Coturnix coturnix, egg into each of the nest-boxes. Nest-boxes with playbacks of mobbing calls were depredated by martens significantly more than were nest-boxes with blank tapes. The results of the present study indicate that repeated conspicuous mobbing calls may carry a significant cost for birds during the breeding season.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4092
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Author Doutrelant, C.; McGregor, P. K.; Oliveira, R. F.
Title The effect of an audience on intrasexual communication in male Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Behavioral Ecology Abbreviated Journal Behav. Ecol.
Volume 12 Issue (up) Pages 283-286
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4224
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Author McNaughton, S. J.; Georgiadis, N.J.
Title Ecology of African Grazing and Browsing Mammals Type Journal Article
Year 1986 Publication Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue (up) Pages 39-66
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Abstract INTRODUCTION Africa is the earth's second largest continent, comprising 20% of its surface. Largely tropical, Africa extends as well into temperate zones to 37 N and 35 S. Eastern and southern Africa display steep elevation gradients due to the prevalence there of volcanic orogeny and rifting (29). Local landscapes are distinguished by substantial geological heterogeneity, dissected land forms, and resultant steep gradients of precipitation and vegetation. The consequent pronounced fragnientation of habitats and sharp juxtaposition of distinct vegetation types, combined with climatic oscillations in geological time, contributed to major adaptive radiations of the mammalian fauna (102, 120). Early zoological expeditions recorded that habitat fragmentation and wide spatial variation of animal densities and diversities were distinctive features of African ecosystems (92, 138, 162, 226). Those early records provided the bases of natural history information on animal distributions, habitat preferences, feeding habits, and general ecology; scientific research followed only much later (201). Modem scientific study of African savanna-grassland mammals began in the 1950s (23, 24, 107, 108, 148, 149, 197,203, 204, 210,230), long after the distributions and densities of the major game animals had been affected by growing human populations, colonial land and hunting policies, and virulent exotic diseases that affected the animals both directly and indirectly (57). The mammalian fauna has been increasingly isolated and fragmented within game reserves of varying size, habitat diversity, and animal species diversity; the ability to sustain it in the absence of active management is increasingly questioned (112, 187). For species with population sizes greater than 100 individuals, game reserve area (A) and faunal ...
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4255
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Author Giraldeau, Luc-Alain
Title The ecology of information use Type Book Chapter
Year 1997 Publication Behavioural ecology : an evolutionary approach Abbreviated Journal
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Publisher Blackwell Science Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass. Editor Krebs, J.R.; Davies, N.B.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ 35114973 Serial 4277
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Author Krueger, K.
Title Social Ecology of Horses Type Book Chapter
Year 2008 Publication Ecology of Social Evolution Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue (up) Pages 195-206
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Abstract Horses (Equidae ) are believed to clearly demonstrate the links between ecology and social organization. Their social cognitive abilities enable them to succeed in many different environments, including those provided for them by humans, or the ones domestic horses encounter when escaping from their human care takers. Living in groups takes different shapes in equids. Their aggregation and group cohesion can be explained by Hamilton“s selfish herd theory. However, when an individual joins and to which group it joins appears to be an active individual decision depending on predation pressure, intra group harassment and resource availability. The latest research concerning the social knowledge horses display in eavesdropping experiments affirms the need for an extension of simple herd concepts in horses for a cognitive component. Horses obviously realize the social composition of their group and determine their own position in it. The horses exceedingly flexible social behavior demands for explanations about the cognitive mechanisms, which allow them to make individual decisions. ”Ecology conditions like those that favour the evolution of open behavioural programs sometimes also favour the evolution of the beginnings of consciousness, by favouring conscious choice. Or in other words, consciousness originates with the choice that are left open by open behavioural programs." Popper (1977)
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Publisher Springer Verlag Place of Publication Heidelberg Editor j. Korb and J. Heinze
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4387
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Author Janis, C.
Title An Evolutionary History of Browsing and Grazing Ungulates Type Book Chapter
Year 2007 Publication The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue (up) Pages 21-45
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Abstract Browsing (i.e., eating woody and non-woody dicotyledonous plants) and grazing (i.e., eating grass) are distinctively different types of feeding behaviour among ungulates today. Ungulates with different diets have different morphologies (both craniodental ones and in aspects of the digestive system) and physiologies, although some of these differences are merely related to body size, as grazers are usually larger than browsers. There is also a difference in the foraging behaviour in terms of the relationship between resource abundance and intake rate, which is linear in browsers but asymptotic in grazers. The spatial distribution of the food resource is also different for the different types of herbage, browse being more patchily distributed than grass, and thus browsers and grazers are likely to have a very different perception of food resources in any given ecosystem (see Gordon 2003, for review).
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4392
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Author Wasser, S.K.; Keim, J.L.; Taper, M.L.; Lele, S.R.
Title The influences of wolf predation, habitat loss, and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Abbreviated Journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
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Abstract Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) and moose (Alces alces) populations in the Alberta oil sands region of western Canada are influenced by wolf (Canis lupus) predation, habitat degradation and loss, and anthropogenic activities. Trained domestic dogs were used to locate scat from caribou, moose, and wolves during winter surges in petroleum development. Evidence obtained from collected scat was then used to estimate resource selection, measure physiological stress, and provide individual genetic identification for precise mark–recapture abundance estimates of caribou, moose, and wolves. Strong impacts of human activity were indicated by changes in resource selection and in stress and nutrition hormone levels as human-use measures were added to base resource selection models (including ecological variables, provincial highways, and pre-existing linear features with no human activity) for caribou. Wolf predation and resource selection so heavily targeted deer (Odocoileus virginiana or O hemionus) that wolves appeared drawn away from prime caribou habitat. None of the three examined species showed a significant population change over 4 years. However, caribou population estimates were more than double those of previous approximations for this area. Our findings suggest that modifying landscape-level human-use patterns may be more effective at managing this ecosystem than intentional removal of wolves.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5397
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