Advances in the Study of Behavior

Preface

Suckling, Milk, and the Development of Preferences towards Maternal Cues by Neonates: from Early Learning to Filial Attachment? (Nowak)

A Neuroethological Approach to Song Behavior and Perception in European Starlings: Interrelationships Among Testosterone, Neuroanatomy, Immediate Early Gene Expression and Immune Function (Ball, Sockman, Duffy, and Gentner)

Navigational Memories in Ants and Bees:
Memory Retrieval when Selecting and Following Routes (Collett, Graham, Harris, and Hempel-de-Ibarra)

Functional Genomics Requires Ecology (Carroll and Potts)

Signal Detection and Animal Communication (Wiley)
Preexisting Male Traits are Important in the Evolution of Elaborated Male Sexual Display) Borgia)

Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior (Raine, Ings, Dornhaus, Saleh, and Chittka)

Kin Selection, Constraints and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Long-tailed Tits (Hatchwell and Sharp)

How Do Little Blue Penguins “Validate” Information Contained in their Agonistic Displays? (Waas)

Graduate students and researchers who study animal behavior (ecologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, endocrinologists, pharmacologists, neurobiologists, developmental psychobiologists, ethologists, comparative psychologists).

Jane Brockmann is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests are in the evolution of alternative strategies and tactics, sexual selection and the economics and mechanisms of decision making in animals; since 1990 her research has focused on the behavior of horseshoe crabs. She has authored more than 70 journal articles and book chapters; co-edited two books; and supervised 30 graduate students. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1976) and was an NSF Post-doctoral Fellow with the Animal Behavior Research Group at Oxford, UK (1977-78) studying the behavior of a solitary, sphecid wasp. She has held the position of Professor since 1989 (emeritus since 2011) and was chair of her department from 1997-2001. She has been Program Director for Animal Behavior at the National Science Foundation (2003-4); president of the Animal Behavior Society (1991-1992); Secretary General of the International Ethological Conference (1995-2006); and journal editor for Evolution (1987-1990), Ethology (1991-2001) and Advances in the Study of Behavior (2002-present; Executive Editor, 2005-2013).
Dr. Peter Slater is a Kennedy Professor of Natural History at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland. He is a former Editor of the journal Animal Behaviour and past President of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. He received the Association's medal in 1999. His research interests are in vocal communication, with emphasis on the development and organization of song in birds.
Charles T. Snowdon is a Hilldale Professor of Psychology and Zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Currently editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, he was previously North American Editor of Animal Behaviour and has served as President of the Animal Behavior Society. He has held a Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health since 1977. His research inter