{"product_id":"analyzing-animal-societies-quantitative-methods-for-vertebrate-social-analysis-9780226895239","title":"Analyzing Animal Societies: Quantitative Methods for Vertebrate Social Analysis","description":"Animals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete for resources, and mate. Within a society, social relationships may be simple or complex and usually vary considerably, both between different groups of individuals and over time. These social systems are fundamental to biological organization, and animal societies are central to studies of behavioral and evolutionary biology. But how do we study animal societies? How do we take observations of animals fighting, grooming, or forming groups and produce a realistic description or model of their societies? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnalyzing Animal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocieties\u003c\/i\u003e presents a conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior and demonstrates how to put this framework into practice by collecting suitable data on the interactions and associations of individuals so that relationships can be described, and, from these, models can be derived. In addition to presenting the tools, Hal Whitehead illustrates their applicability using a wide range of real data on a variety of animal species-from bats and chimps to dolphins and birds. The techniques that Whitehead describes will be profitably adopted by scientists working with primates, cetaceans, birds, and ungulates, but the tools can be used to study societies of invertebrates, amphibians, and even humans. \u003ci\u003eAnalyzing Animal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocieties\u003c\/i\u003e will become a standard reference for those studying vertebrate social behavior and will give to these studies the kind of quality standard already in use in other areas of the life sciences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hal Whitehead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 6.15w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226895239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHal Whitehead\u003c\/b\u003e is a University Research Professor in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the author of \u003ci\u003eSperm Whales: Social Evolution in the Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44887282548851,"sku":"9780226895239","price":73.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_3f93303a-bcaf-4812-9178-e3afb1189574.jpg?v=1776873897","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/analyzing-animal-societies-quantitative-methods-for-vertebrate-social-analysis-9780226895239","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}