Publication details
Predační chování pavouků
| Title in English | Predatory behaviour of spiders |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | How do the brain and hormones influence behaviour? How do animals navigate and communicate with each other? How does behavior evolve under the influence of genes and environment? Why do animals sometimes compete with each other and sometimes cooperate? What do they use to choose mates and how do they raise their young? How have brains and social behavior evolved over evolution? How does knowledge of behavior help us protect wild and domestic animals or model human behavioral disorders? Ethology, the science of animal behavior, answers these questions. A new textbook, Ethology, explains behaviour at four levels: At the level of mechanisms (i.e., how behavior is controlled by the interplay between external stimuli and the animal's internal state), at the level of ontogeny (how it is shaped by the interaction between genotype and acquired experience), at the level of function (how behavior helps animals survive and pass genes to offspring), and at the level of evolution (how behavior changes in animals belonging to different phylogenetic branches). The book is supplemented by a section on the history of ethology and on applied ethology, and includes comprehensive chapters that present behavior holistically in selected groups of animals: cockroaches, shrews, cuckoos, spiders, bats, and humans. Translated with DeepL.com (free version) |