Social Recognition in Invertebrates: The Knowns and the Unknowns Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Aquiloni, Laura (Editor), Tricarico, Elena (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319376802 ISBN-13: 9783319376806 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - Ethology (animal Behavior) |
Dewey: 577.82 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.88 lbs) 266 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
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Publisher Description: This book uses a wide range of case studies from different invertebrate taxa to describe the numerous forms of social recognition occurring in this large group of animals and traces the evolution of this cognitive ability. The authors provide several examples of direct (i.e. the target of recognition is a conspecific) and indirect recognition (i.e. recognition of a reliable proxy rather than an individual, such as a den or a substrate) and discuss cases of familiar recognition (i.e. an animal remembers a conspecific but cannot tell what class it comes from or recognize its identity). Class-level recognition (i.e. an animal assigns a conspecific to an appropriate class of animals), and true individual recognition (i.e. an animal both identifies and recognizes a conspecific on an individual basis) are also addressed. |