{"product_id":"collective-animal-behavior-9780691148434","title":"Collective Animal Behavior","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow and why animals produce group behaviors\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, \u003ci\u003eCollective Animal Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines their evolution across a range of species. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProviding a synthesis of mathematical modeling, theoretical biology, and experimental work, David Sumpter investigates how animals move and arrive together, how they transfer information, how they make decisions and synchronize their activities, and how they build collective structures. Sumpter constructs a unified appreciation of how different group-living species coordinate their behaviors and why natural selection has produced these groups. For the first time, the book combines traditional approaches to behavioral ecology with ideas about self-organization and complex systems from physics and mathematics. Sumpter offers a guide for working with key models in this area along with case studies of their application, and he shows how ideas about animal behavior can be applied to understanding human social behavior. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContaining a wealth of accessible examples as well as qualitative and quantitative features, \u003ci\u003eCollective Animal Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e will interest behavioral ecologists and all scientists studying complex systems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David J. T. Sumpter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691148434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid J. T. Sumpter\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of applied mathematics at Uppsala University in Sweden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45073513185395,"sku":"9780691148434","price":121.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_65ddff91-472c-4e7a-9103-a83f90e71233.jpg?v=1780702996","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/collective-animal-behavior-9780691148434","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}