Contributors

Preface

Introduction

PART 1 DESCRIBING BEHAVIOR

Learning to Describe and Quantify Animal Behavior

Bonnie J. Ploger

Developing Operational Definitions and Measuring Interobserver Reliability Using House Crickets (Acheta domesticus)

Terry Glover

PART 2 CAUSATION

Courtship, Mating, and Sex Pheromones in the Mealworm Beetle (Tenebrio molitor)

Enrique Font

Ester Desfilis

Courtship and Mate Attraction in Parasitic Wasps

Robert W. Matthew

Janice R. Matthews

Chemoreception in Lizards

C. O'Neil Krekorian

Behavioral Thermoregulation in Field Populations of Amphibian Larvae

Howard H. Whiteman

Nancy L. Buschhaus

Temperature Dependence of the Electric Organ Discharge in Weakly Electric Fish

Gunther K. H. Zupanc

Jonathan R. Banks

Gerhard Engler

Robert C. Beason

Observing and Analyzing Human Nonverbal Communication

Penny L. Bernstein

Foraging Behavior of Ants, or Picnics: An Ant's-Eye View

Sylvia L. Halkin

Hummingbird Foraging Patterns: Experiments Using Artificial Flowers

Alastair Inman

Honey Bee Foraging Behavior

Monica Raveret Richter

Jasmin M. Keramaty

Individual Constancy to Color by Foraging Honey Bees

Peggy S. M. Hill

Harrington Wells

PART 3 DEVELOPMENT

Dog Training Laboratory: Applied Animal Behavior

Lynn L. Gillie

George H. Waring

Paternal Care and Its Effect on Maternal Behavior and Pup Survival and Development in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Betty McGuire

The Effect of Prenatal Visual Stimulation on the Imprinting Responses of Domestic Chicks: An Examination of Sensitive Periods During Development

Wendy L. Hill

Development of Thermoregulation in Altricial Rodents

Gail R. Michener

T. Dic Charge

Aggregation and Kin Recognition in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus laevis)

Kathryn L. Anderson

Bonnie J. Ploger

PART 4 ADAPTATION AND EVOLUTION

Section I Foraging

Diving Birds: A Field Study of Benthic and Piscivorous Foragers

Jennifer J. Templeton

D. James Mountjoy

Found A Peanut: Foraging Decisions by Squirrels

Sylvia L. Halkin

Economic Decisions and Foraging Trade-offs in Chickadees

Ronald L. Mumme

Seed Selection by Foraging Birds

Monica Raveret Richter

Judith A. Halstead

Kierstin Savastano

Competitive Behavior of Birds at Feeders

Alison M. Mostrom

Section II Avoiding Predators

Vigilance and the Group-size Effect: Observing Behavior in Humans

Joanna E. Scheib

Lisa E. Cody

Nicola S. Clayton

Robert D. Montgomerie

The Function of ``Chat'' Calls in Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos): Vocal Defense of Nestlings

Cheryl A. Logan

Diving and Skating in Whirligig Beetles: Alternative Antipredator Responses

Alastair Inman

Anne Houtman

The Response of Tree Squirrels to Conspecific and Heterospecific Alarm Calls

Anne Houtman

Section III Agonistic Behavior

Competition for Breeding Resources by Burying Beetles

Michelle Pellissier Scott

Learning to be Winners and Losers: Agonistic Behavior in Crayfish

Elizabeth M. Jakob

Chad D. Hoefler

Section IV Courtship and Parental Care

Costs and Benefits of Maternal Care in Earwigs

Ronald L. Mumme

James O. Palmer

Susan M. Rankin

Vocal Behavior and Mating Tactics of the Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer): A Field Exercise in Animal Behavior

Don C. Forester

The Role of Multiple Male Characters in Mate Choice by Female Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

Dan J. Albrecht

Investigating Human Mate Choice Using the Want Ads

Mary Crowe

Section V Games

Demonstrating Strategies for Solving the Prisoner's Dilemma

Kathleen N. Morgan

Using Empirical Games to Teach Animal Behavior

Philip K. Stoddard

Section VI Evolution

The Evolution of Behavior: A Phylogenetic Approach

Ken Yasukawa

Appendices

A. Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching

The Animal Behavior Society and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

Ethical Use of Human Subjects

American Psychological Association

Introduction to Statistics

Bonnie J. Ploger

Ken Yasukawa

Glossary

Index