Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution / / ed. by John L. Gittleman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bekoff, Mare,; Biknevicius, Audrone R.,; Caro, T. M.,; Clark, Tim W.,; Clutton-Brock, Juliet,; Creel, Scott,; Dayan, Tamar,; Flynn, John J.,; Frank, Laurence G.,; Franklin, William L.,; Fuller, Todd K.,; Gittleman, John L.,; Gompper, Matthew E.,; Hunt, Robert M.,; Jamieson, Dale,; Johnson, Kenneth G.,; Johnson, Warren E.,; Koepfli, Klaus-Peter,; Mills, M. G. L.,; Ortolani, Alessia,; Reading, Richard P.,; Schaller, George B.,; Shen, Zhongmin,; Simberloff, Daniel,; Van Valkenburgh, Blaire,; Waser, Peter M.,; Wayne, Robert K.,; Werdelin, Lars,; Yang, Senshan,; Yao, Yin,; You, Chengxia,
• HerausgeberIn: Gittleman, John L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.) :; 127 halftones, 34 tables

Because carnivores are at the top of the food chain, their status is an important indicator of the health of the world ecosystem. They are intensely interesting to zoologists and uniquely intriguing to the general public. Devoted primarily to terrestrial carnivores, this volume focuses on such theme...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Introduction: Carnivores and Conservation Biology
• PART I. BEHAVIOR
• Introduction
• 1. Ethics and the Study of Carnivores: Doing Science While Respecting Animals
• 2. Behavioral Endocrinology and Social Organization in Dwarf Mongooses
• 3. Fernale Masculinization in the Spotted Hyena: Endocrinology, Behavioral Ecology, and Evolution
• 4. The Adaptive Significance of Color Patterns in Carnivores: Phylogenetic Tests of Classic Hypotheses
• 5. Sympatry in Canids: A Review and Assessment
• PART II. ECOLOGY
• Introduction
• 6. Methodological Advances in Capture, Census, and Food-Habits Studies of Large African Carnivores
• 7. Patterns of Size Separation in Carnivore Communities
• 8. Patterns and Consequences of Dispersal in Gregarious Carnivores
• 9. Carnivore Reintroductions: An Interdisciplinary Examination
• 10. Human/Carnivore Interactions: Conservation and Management Implications from China
• PART III. EVOLUTION
• Introduction
• 11. Competitors, Companions, Status Symbols, or Pests: A Review of Human Associations with Other Carnivores
• 12. Design for Killing: Craniodental Adaptations of Predators
• 13. Genetic Relatedness among Individuals within Carnivore Societies
• 14. Demographic and Historical Effects on Genetic Variation of Carnivores
• 15. Biogeography of the Order Carnivora
• 16. Carnivoran Phylogeny and Rates of Evolution: Morphological, Taxic, and Molecular
• 17. Carnivoran Ecomorphology: A Phylogenetic Perspective
• Species and Subject Index