Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow
The Effect of Group Size on Social Behavior

580 pages
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24 halftones, 173 line drawings, 38 tables
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6 x 9
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© 1996
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1: Introduction
2: Field Methods and Data Analysis
3: Study Site and Study Population
4: Ectoparasitism
5: Competition for Nest Sites
6: Misdirected Parental Care: Extrapair Copulation, Brood Paratisism, and Mixing of
Offspring
7: Shortage of Suitable Nesting Sites
8: Avoidance of Predators
9: Social Foraging 1: Natural History, Food Distribution, and Mechanisms of Information
Transfer
10: Social Foraging 2: Effects of Colony Size
11: Reproductive Success
12: Survivorship
13: Colony Choice
14: The Evolution of Coloniality
Appendix
References
Index
1: Introduction
2: Field Methods and Data Analysis
3: Study Site and Study Population
4: Ectoparasitism
5: Competition for Nest Sites
6: Misdirected Parental Care: Extrapair Copulation, Brood Paratisism, and Mixing of
Offspring
7: Shortage of Suitable Nesting Sites
8: Avoidance of Predators
9: Social Foraging 1: Natural History, Food Distribution, and Mechanisms of Information
Transfer
10: Social Foraging 2: Effects of Colony Size
11: Reproductive Success
12: Survivorship
13: Colony Choice
14: The Evolution of Coloniality
Appendix
References
Index
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