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Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals

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Authors:
  1. Ashley Ward

    1. School of life and Environmenta Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Mike Webster

    1. School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

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  • Covers the aspects of social behaviour of animals in comprehensive form

  • Provides a clear overview to up-to-date empirical and theoretical research on social animal behaviour

  • Discusses collective animal behaviour, social networks and animal personality in detail

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Sociality

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 1-8

  3. Mechanisms: Social Recognition and Social Organisation

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 9-27

  4. Attraction, Alignment and Repulsion: How Groups Form and How They Function

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 29-54

  5. Social Foraging and Predator-Prey Interactions

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 55-87

  6. Other Benefits and Costs of Grouping

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 89-109

  7. Distributions of Costs and Benefits Within Groups

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 111-124

  8. Group Size

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 125-148

  9. Collective Decision-Making

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 149-174

  10. Development, Ontogeny and Parasite-Mediated Changes in Social Behaviour

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 175-190

  11. The Evolution of Group Living

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 191-216

  12. Conclusions

    • Ashley Ward, Mike Webster
    Pages 217-223

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 225-276
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About this book

The last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal phenomena, including collective behaviour and social networks. In ‘Animal Social Behaviour’, authors Ashley Ward and Michael Webster integrate the most up-to-date empirical and theoretical research to provide a new synthesis of the field, which is aimed at fellow researchers and postgraduate students on the topic. ​

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of life and Environmenta Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Ashley Ward

  • School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Mike Webster

About the authors

Dr. Ashley Ward, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia. 


Dr. Mike Webster, Lecturer, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals

  • Authors: Ashley Ward, Mike Webster

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28585-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28583-2Published: 10 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80380-7Published: 26 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28585-6Published: 20 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 276

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Behavioral Sciences, Zoology

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