Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xxiii
5. PART I. Insect & Arachnid Model Systems
6. 1. Golden Flies, Sunlit Meadows: A Tribute to the Yellow Dungfly 3
7. 2. A Feeling and a Fondness for the Bees 27
8. 3. Peeling the Onion: Symbioses between Ants and Blue Butterflies 41
9. 4. In Search of Unified Theories in Sociobiology: Help from Social Wasps 57
10. 5. Genetic Consequences of Sexual Selection in Stalk-Eyed Flies 72
11. 6. The Behavioral Ecology of Stridulatory Communication in Leaf-Cutting Ants 92
12. 7. Understanding the Evolution of Social Behavior in Colonial Web-Building Spiders 110
13. PART II. Fish, Amphibian, & Reptile Model Systems
14. 8. Variation and Selection in Swordtails 133
15. 9. Learning from Lizards 149
16. 10. Acoustic Communication in Frogs and Toads 169
17. 11. Selection in Local Neighborhoods, the Social Environment, and Ecology of Alternative Strategies 191
18. 12. Synthesis: Environment, Mating Systems, and Life History Allocations in the Bluehead Wrasse 227
19. 13. The Economics of Sequential Mate Choice in Sticklebacks 245
20. PART III. Bird Model Systems
21. 14. Conversing with a Bird: Studies of Mating and Parental Behavior in Red-Winged Blackbirds 265
22. 15. The Evolution of Virtual Ecology 288
23. 16. Wood Ducks: A Model System for Investigating Conspecific Parasitism in Cavity-Nesting Birds 311
24. 17. The Mexican Jay as a Model System for the Study of Large Group Size and Its Social Correlates in a Territorial Bird 338
25. 18. Sexual Selection in the Barn Swallow 359
26. PART IV. Mammal Model Systems
27. 19. Cunning Coyotes: Tireless Tricksters, Protean Predators 381
28. 20. Bottlenose Dolphins: Social Relationships in a Big-Brained Aquatic Mammal 408
29. 21. Bonnet Macaques: Evolutionary Perspectives on Females’ Lives 433
30. 22. Chimpanzee Hunters: Chaos or Cooperation in the Forest? 453
31. 23. Cooperative Hunting and Sociality in African Wild Dogs, Lycaon pictus 466
32. 24. Gorilla Socioecology: Conflict and Compromise between the Sexes 491
33. 25. Cheetahs and Their Mating System 512
34. Closing Thoughts 533
35. Contributors 535
36. Index 539