Like dispersal and migration, short-term movement between roosts or dens is potentially
costly. If such behavior is adaptive, these costs should be balanced by benefits associated …

Individual recognition (IR) behavior has been widely studied, uncovering spectacular
recognition abilities across a range of taxa and modalities. Most studies of IR focus on the …

The" ferment of constructive excitement" in ethology mentioned in the preface to the first
edition of this book has continued unabated, rekindling serious scientific consideration of the …

The existence of multiple memory systems has been proposed in a number of areas,
including cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and the study of animal learning and …

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

This book will be a landmark text for all those interested in animal communication. Animal
Vocal Communication explicitly avoids human-centred concepts and approaches and links …

No single theory so far proposed gives a wholly satisfactory account of the origin and
maintenance of bird-song dialects. This failure is the consequence of a weak comparative …

The literature showing that territorial residents generally respond more intensely to an
intrusion by a stranger than by a known neighbour is reviewed. The functional basis of this …

While many domestic and laboratory animals recognize familiar humans, such ability in wild
animals is only anecdotally known. Here we demonstrate experimentally that a cognitively …

Conspecific attraction, the tendency for individuals of a species to settle near one another, is
well described in colonial species, especially birds. Although this behavior may occur in …