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OverviewIn this first comprehensive synthesis of the literature on food hoarding in animals, Stephen B. Vander Wall discusses how animals store food, how they use food and how this use affects individual fitness, why and how food hoarding evolved, how cached food is lost, mechanisms for protecting and recovering cached food, physiological and behavioral factors that influence hoarding, and the impact that hoarding animals have on plant populations and plant dispersal. He then provides detailed coverage of hoarding behavior across taxa—mammals, birds, and arthropods—to address issues in evolution, ecology, and behavior. Drawings, photographs, and appendixes document complex and intrinsically interesting food-hoarding behaviors, and the bibliography of nearly 1,500 sources is itself an invaluable and unique reference. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen B. Vander WallPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.80cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.50cm Weight: 0.851kg ISBN: 9780226847351ISBN 10: 0226847357 Pages: 453 Publication Date: 10 July 1990 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationStephen B. Vander Wall is assistant professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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