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On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups
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On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups Hardcover - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Sue Boinski (Editor); Paul A. Garber (Editor)


From the publisher

Getting from here to there may be simple for one individual. But as any parent, scout leader, or CEO knows, herding a whole troop in one direction is a lot more complicated. Who leads the group? Who decides where the group will travel, and using what information? How do they accomplish these tasks? On the Move addresses these questions, examining the social, cognitive, and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. Chapters discuss how factors such as group size, resource distribution and availability, the costs of travel, predation, social cohesion, and cognitive skills affect how individuals as well as social groups exploit their environment. Most chapters focus on field studies of a wide range of human and nonhuman primate groups, from squirrel monkeys to Turkana pastoralists, but chapters covering group travel in hyenas, birds, dolphins, and bees provide a broad taxonomic perspective and offer new insights into comparative questions, such as whether primates are unique in their ability to coordinate group-level activities.

First line

The distance that an individual or group travels in a day, season, or year is determined, on the one hand, by the various benefits to be gained by having access to greater range and, on the other, by the costs of travel.

Details

  • Title On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups
  • Author Sue Boinski (Editor); Paul A. Garber (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 822
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date May 15, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780226063393 / 0226063399
  • Weight 2.69 lbs (1.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.3 x 1.88 in (23.47 x 16.00 x 4.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Social behavior in animals, Primates - Behavior
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99013382
  • Dewey Decimal Code 591.56

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Citations

  • Choice, 11/01/2000, Page 561