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xviii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and indexes. |
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Contents: Survivors from another world -- Methods and materials -- The selfish herd: modal social organization -- Birth and the hiding strategy -- Behavioral development -- Lifetime dominance ranks of females and males -- Female reproduction: the level of expenditure -- Female reproduction: age, rank, and individual differences -- Male reproduction: a short, dangerous life -- The mating system: conflict and cooperation between the sexes -- The ghosts of predators past -- Appendix 1. Ungulate populations on the National Bison Range -- Appendix 2. The National Bison Range pronghorn population -- Appendix 3. A partial list of native flowering grassland plants found in pronghorn habitat on the National Bison Range -- Appendix 4. Dates of birth and death, focal hours of observation, and the nature of early social experience of individual males and females that were followed longitudinally -- Appendix 5. Measurement of male size -- Appendix 6. Measurement of rut activity costs of females. |
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Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/97014726.html |