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Description: |
xiv, 557 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-519) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Prairie Dogs and Coloniality -- Taxonomy and Natural History -- Burrows -- Study Sites and Methods -- Costs and Benefits of Coloniality -- The Coterie -- Infanticide, the Major Cause of Juvenile Mortality -- The Antipredator Call -- Communal Nursing -- Kin Recognition, Social Learning, and Eusociality -- Behavioral Observations of Estrus and Copulations -- Annual and Lifetime Reproductive Success -- Factors That Affect Annual and Lifetime Reproductive Success -- Levels of Inbreeding -- Do Mothers Manipulate the Sex Ratio of Their Litters? -- Demography and Population Dynamics -- Behavioral Ecology of Prairie Dogs -- Appendix A. Common and Scientific Names of Organisms Mentioned in This Book -- Appendix B. Descriptions of Infanticides by Marauding Females. |
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Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/94013900.html |
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Series Added Entry: |
Wildlife behavior and ecology. |