Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility
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- Language: English
- ISBN10: 0521749271
Book Overview
>>>Spiders are frequently underestimated as suitable behavioral models simply because of the basic belief that due to their modest brains their behavior is innate and mainly invariable. Challenging this assumption, this fascinating book shows that rather than possessing a limited behavioral repertoire, spiders show surprising cognitive abilities, changing their behavior to suit their situational wants. The team of authors unravels the considerable intra-distinct as nicely as intra-individual variability and plasticity in diverse behaviors ranging from foraging and net creating to communication and courtship. An introductory chapter on spider biology, systematics and evolution gives the reader with the required background info to understand the discussed behaviors and aids to place them into an evolutionary context. Highlighting an beneath-explored location of behavior, this book will offer new concepts for behavioral researchers and students unfamiliar with spiders as properly as a useful resource for those currently working in this intriguing field….
