In 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226847351
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95451890
Product Key Features
Author
Stephen B. Vander Wall
Publication Name
Food Hoarding in Animals
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Zoology
Publication Year
1990
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
453 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
253mm
Item Width
179mm
Item Weight
862g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Stephen B. Vander Wall
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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