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Author Berger, J.; Cunningham, C.
Title Size-Related Effects on Search Times in North American Grassland Female Ungulates Type Journal Article
Year 1988 Publication Ecology Abbreviated Journal
Volume 69 Issue 1 Pages 177-183
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Abstract Feeding and searching (= vigilance) rates arise as a result of many interrelated factors including trophic level, diet, reproductive condition, sex, habitat, body mass, and potential predation pressure. Because of unique ecological conditions in which the confounding influences of all but two of these variables could be minimized, we examined the hypothesis that body mass alone accounts for interspecific differences in search times, and tested it with females of four sympatric native North American ungulates (Bison bison, Antilocapra americana, Ovis canadensis, and Odocoileus hemionus). When the effects of group size were controlled, smaller bodied species were more vigilant (per unit body mass) than larger ones. However, search times (ST) also scaled to body mass, and between 81 and 97% of the ST variance was explained by either exponential or power functions. To remove the potential bias that predators exert different influences on species of varying size, search times of bison in areas with and without their major predator, wolves (Canis lupus), were contrasted; search times did not differ between sites. Our results highlight the importance of designing field research that controls for confounding variables prior to attempting to scale behavioral processes to ecological events. See full-text article at JSTOR
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2233
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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 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 Rogers, A.R.
Title Does Biology Constrain Culture? Type Journal Article
Year 1988 Publication American Anthropologist Abbreviated Journal Am Anthropol
Volume 90 Issue 4 Pages 819-831
Keywords models, learning, evolution, culture, fitness, adaptive, environment, human, natural selection, behavior
Abstract Most social scientists would agree that the capacity for human culture was probably fashioned by natural selection, but they disagree about the implications of this supposition. Some believe that natural selection imposes important constraints on the ways in which culture can vary, while others believe that any such constraints must be negligible. This article employs a “thought experiment” to demonstrate that neither of these positions can be justified by appeal to general properties of culture or of evolution. Natural selection can produce mechanisms of cultural transmission that are neither adaptive nor consistent with the predictions of acultural evolutionary models (those ignoring cultural evolution). On the other hand, natural selection can also produce mechanisms of cultural transmission that are highly consistent with acultural models. Thus, neither side of the sociobiology debate is justified in dismissing the arguments of the other. Natural selection may impose significant constraints on some human behaviors, but negligible constraints on others. Models of simultaneous genetic/cultural evolution will be useful in identifying domains in which acultural evolutionary models are, and are not, likely to be useful.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ citeulike:907484 Serial 4199
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Author Byrne, Richard; Whiten, Andrew
Title Machiavellian Intelligence Type Book Whole
Year 1988 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract This book presents an alternative to conventional ideas about the evolution of the human intellect. Instead of placing top priority on the role of tools, the pressure for their skillful use, and the related importance of interpersonal communication as a means for enhanced cooperation, this<BR>volume explores quite a different idea-- that the driving force in the evolution of human intellect was social expertise--a force which enabled the manipulation of others within the social group, who themselves are seen as posing the most challenging problems faced by primitive humans. The need to<BR>outwit one's clever colleagues then produces an evolutionary spiraling of “Machiavellian intelligence.” The book forms a complete and self-contained text on this fast-growing topic. It includes the origins of the basic premise and a wealth of exciting developments, described by an international<BR>team of authors from the fields of anthropology, psychology, and zoology. An evaluation of more traditional approaches is also undertaken, with a view to discovering to what extent Machiavellian intelligence represents a complementary concept or one that is truly an alternative. Readers and<BR>students will find this fascinating volume carries them to the frontiers of scientific work on the origin of human intellect.
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Publisher Oxford Univ Press Place of Publication Oxford Editor
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4412
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Author Byrne, Richard; Whiten, Andrew
Title The machiavellian intelligence hypothesis:Editorial Type Book Chapter
Year 1988 Publication Machiavellian Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-9
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Publisher Oxford Univ Press Place of Publication Oxford Editor
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4430
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Author Huff, A.N.
Title Winter Manegement Type Journal Article
Year 1988 Publication Journal of Equine Veterinary Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 81-81
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4668
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Author Huff, A.N.
Title Safety Type Journal Article
Year 1988 Publication Journal of Equine Veterinary Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 81-81
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4669
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Author Bednarz, J.C.
Title Cooperative Hunting Harris' Hawks (Parabuteo unicinctus) Type Journal Article
Year 1988 Publication Science Abbreviated Journal Science
Volume 239 Issue 4847 Pages 1525-1527
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Abstract Coordinated hunting by several individuals directed toward the capture and sharing of one Large prey animal has been documented convincingly only for a few mammalian carnivores. In New Mexico, Harris' hawks formed hunting parties of two to six individuals in the nonbreeding season. This behavior improved capture success and the average energy available per individual enabled hawks to dispatch prey larger than themselves. These patterns suggest that cooperation is important to understanding the evolution of complex social behavior in higher vertebrates and, specifically, that benefits derived from team hunting a key factor in the social living of Harris' hawks.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4717
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Author Hauser M.D
Title Invention and social transmission: new data from wild vervet monkeys Type Book Chapter
Year 1988 Publication Machiavellian Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 327-343
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Publisher Oxford Univ Press Place of Publication Oxford Editor
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Byrne1988 Serial 4794
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Author Cheney, D.L.; Seyfarth, R.M
Title Social and non.social knowledge in vervet monkeys Type Book Chapter
Year 1988 Publication Machiavellian Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 255-270
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Byrne+Whiten1988 Serial 4787
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