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Preface; Introduction; 1. The Significance of Behavioral Ecology for Conservation Biology; Part I: Baseline Behavioral Ecological Data and Conservation Problems. Introduction; 2. The Role of Individual Identification in Conservation Biology; 3. Ecological Indicators of Risk for Primates, as Judged by Susceptibility to Logging; 4. Future Pry: Some Consequences of the Loss and Restoration of Large Carnivores; Part II: Baseline Behavioral Ecological Data and Conservation Intervention. Introduction; 5. A Minimum Intervention Approach to Management: The Influence of Social Structure; 6. Contributions of Behavioral Studies to Captive Management and Breeding of Rare and Endangered Mammals; 7. Behavior as a Tool for Management Intervention in Birds; Part III: Mating Systems and Conservation Problems. Introduction; 8. Conspecific Aggregation and Conservation Biology; 9. Reproductive Ecology in the Conservation and Management of Fishes; 10. Social Organization and Effective Population Size in Carnivores; Part IV: Mating Systems and Conservation Intervention. Introducton; 11. Animal Breeding Systems, Hunter Selectivity, and Consumptive Use in Wildlife Conservation; 12. Conspecific Brood Parasitism, Population Dynamics, and the Conservation of Cavity-nesting Birds; 13. The Importance of Mate Choice in Improving Viability of Captive Populations; Part V: Dispersal and Inbreeding Avoidance. Introduction; 14. Mammalian Dispersal and Reserve Design; 15. Behavioral Ecology, Genetic Diversity, and Declining Amphibian Populations; Part VI: Human Behavioral Ecology. Introduction; 16. The Management of Subsistence Hunting: Behavioral; Ecology of Hunters and their Mammalian Prey; 17. Indigenous Hunting in the Neotropics: Conservation or Optimal Foraging?; 18. The Evolved Psychological Apparatus of Decision-making is one Source of Environmental Problems; Afterword: Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Policy: On Balancing Science, Applications and Advocacy; Epilogue: How do we refocus Behavioral Ecology to Address Conservation Issues More Directly