Assessments and Decisions A Study of Information Gathering by Hermit Crabs

Series: Studies in Behavioural Adaptation Series

By: R Elwood and S Neil

195 pages, Illus

Publisher: Chapman & Hall

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ISBN: 9780412391101 Hardback Dec 1991 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-3 weeks
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The use of hermit crabs as an experimental model for motivational studies is discussed in this book by expert behavioural ecologists.

Part 1 Assessments, decisions and hermit crabs: assessments and decisions; the behavioural ecology of hermit crabs; "pagurus bernhardus" in Northern Ireland. Part 2 Non-competitive assessment: assessment of unoccupied shells; assessment and motivational change. Part 3 Competitive assessment: agonistic behaviour; assessments during shell fights; assessment strategies and the duration of fights; motivational change during aggressive encounters.

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Series: Studies in Behavioural Adaptation Series

By: R Elwood and S Neil

195 pages, Illus

Publisher: Chapman & Hall

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This thorough study recognises the growing awareness that an integration of functional and causal explanation is required in behavioural analyses...The authors appear to have been remarkably successful..basic concepts have been precisely defined; the link with physiology, in particular with the physiological state of the animal during specific parts of behaviour, is exactly explained, also by using appropriate graphics, flow-charts, and photo sequences...the authors have been capable of a true expansion of theory in several fields of ethology. A separate summary with every chapter considerably enhances the easy use of this fine book - Crustaceana

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