Collective Animal Behavior / / David J. T. Sumpter.
Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 7 halftones. 61 line illus. 3 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Coming Together
- Chapter 3. Information Transfer
- Chapter 4. Making Decisions
- Chapter 5. Moving Together
- Chapter 6. Synchronization
- Chapter 7. Structures
- Chapter 8. Regulation
- Chapter 9. Complicated Interactions
- Chapter 10. The Evolution of Co-operation
- Chapter 11. Conclusions
- References
- Index