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Product Description: You may have read books or seen TV shows that tell you that your dog will seek to dominate you, your family members and other pets unless you become the alpha and put him in his place. The theory is that since dogs evolved from wolves and wolves (supposedly) form packs with strict pecking orders and battle each other to become the pack leader, your dog will do the same within your household...read more
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9781929242801 | Reprint edition (Dogwise Pub, January 1, 2011), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: You may have read books or seen TV shows that tell you that your dog will seek to dominate you, your family members and other pets unless you become the alpha and put him in his place.

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Product Description: Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B...read more
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9780674027817 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans.

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9780674046276 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans.

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Product Description: Macaques are perhaps the most comprehensively studied of all monkey groups, and the 20 species feature a broad diversity of social relationships, making them an ideal group for exploring the evolution of primate societies. This book investigates how societies arose, developed and were transformed during the course of evolution...read more
By Werner Kaumanns (editor), Mewa Singh (editor) and Bernard Thierry (editor)
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9780521818476 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $207.00 | About this edition: Macaques are perhaps the most comprehensively studied of all monkey groups, and the 20 species feature a broad diversity of social relationships, making them an ideal group for exploring the evolution of primate societies.

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9780521521680 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2010), cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Macaques are perhaps the most comprehensively studied of all monkey groups, and the 20 species feature a broad diversity of social relationships, making them an ideal group for exploring the evolution of primate societies.

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Product Description: The study of animal behaviour is one of the fastest growing sub-disciplines in biology. The resulting diversity of conceptual approaches and methodological innovations makes it increasingly difficult for professionals and students to keep abreast of important new developments...read more
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9783642026232, titled "Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms" | 1 edition (Springer Verlag, April 15, 2010), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The study of animal behaviour is one of the fastest growing sub-disciplines in biology.

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9781604131420 | 1 edition (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 2009), cover price $35.00

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Product Description: Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists how to apply it to their work on animal populations...read more
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9780691127514 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 2008, cover price $82.50 | About this edition: Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists how to apply it to their work on animal populations.

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9780691127521 | 1 edition (Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 2008), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists how to apply it to their work on animal populations.

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Introduces animal societies such as lion prides, ant colonies, and monkey troops, and describes basic characteristics and behavior found in different species.
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9780769642628 | Carson Dellosa Pub Co Inc, September 15, 2005, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Introduces animal societies such as lion prides, ant colonies, and monkey troops, and describes basic characteristics and behavior found in different species.

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9781424201679, titled "Crash, a Roar, and So Much More" | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $15.00

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Introduces animal societies such as lion prides, ant colonies, and monkey troops, and describes basic characteristics and behavior found in different species.
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9781417741823 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2005, cover price $13.55 | About this edition: Introduces animal societies such as lion prides, ant colonies, and monkey troops, and describes basic characteristics and behavior found in different species.

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Product Description: African mole-rats are a unique taxon of subterranean rodents that range in sociality from solitary-dwelling species to two "eusocial" species, the Damaraland mole-rat and the naked mole-rat. The naked mole-rat is arguably the closest that a mammal comes to behaving like social insects such as bees and termites, with large colonies and a behavioral and reproductive division of labor...read more
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9780521771993 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: African mole-rats are a unique taxon of subterranean rodents that range in sociality from solitary-dwelling species to two "eusocial" species, the Damaraland mole-rat and the naked mole-rat.

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9780521018654 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2005, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: African mole-rats are a unique taxon of subterranean rodents that range in sociality from solitary-dwelling species to two "eusocial" species, the Damaraland mole-rat and the naked mole-rat.

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Introduces animal societies such as lion prides, ant colonies, and monkey troops, and describes basic characteristics and behavior found in different species.
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9780606340243 | Demco Media, June 30, 2005, cover price $12.45 | About this edition: Introduces animal societies such as lion prides, ant colonies, and monkey troops, and describes basic characteristics and behavior found in different species.

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Product Description: Short of inventing a time machine, we will never see our extinct forebears in action and be able to determine directly how human behaviour and culture has developed. However, we can learn from our closest living relatives, the African great apes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521828413 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 29, 2004, cover price $126.99 | About this edition: Short of inventing a time machine, we will never see our extinct forebears in action and be able to determine directly how human behaviour and culture has developed.

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9780521535434 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2004, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Short of inventing a time machine, we will never see our extinct forebears in action and be able to determine directly how human behaviour and culture has developed.

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Product Description: Did you know that Tasmanian hens have two husbands? That cellular slime molds commit suicide? That vampire bats will share food with hungry fellow bats and that hanuman langurs commit infanticide? Why creatures great and small behave in such fascinating and seemingly perplexing ways is explained in this delightful account of the evolutionary foundations of animal social behavior...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674170551 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Introduces the basic concepts of sociobiology while applying kin selection, inclusive fitness, and game theories to explain conflict and cooperation in animal society

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9780674005570 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 15, 2001, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Did you know that Tasmanian hens have two husbands?

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Explores animal communities, including the social interactions and habitations of Mexican spiders, which work together to build webs; wolves, which live in ranked and organized packs; and matriarchal elephant societies. (view table of contents)
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9780836828177 | Gareth Stevens Pub, January 1, 2001, cover price $24.67 | About this edition: Explores animal communities, including the social interactions and habitations of Mexican spiders, which work together to build webs; wolves, which live in ranked and organized packs; and matriarchal elephant societies.

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Product Description: Schools of fish, flocks of birds, and swarms of insects are examples of three-dimensional aggregation. Covering both invertebrate and vertebrate species, the authors investigate this pervasive biological phenomenon through a variety of disciplines, from physics to mathematics to biology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By William M. Hamner (editor) and Julia K. Parrish (editor)
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9780521460248 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: Schools of fish, flocks of birds, and swarms of insects are examples of three-dimensional aggregation.

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Product Description: The Great Apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans) are our closest living relatives, sharing a common ancestor only five million years ago. We also share key features such as high intelligence, omnivorous diets, prolonged child-rearing and rich social lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Linda F. Marchant (editor), McGrew. W. C. (editor) and Toshisada Nishida (editor)
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9780521554947 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $167.99 | About this edition: The Great Apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans) are our closest living relatives, sharing a common ancestor only five million years ago.

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9781882969180 | Pallas Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $15.00

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Describes the complex and varied ways animals, from termites to migrating birds,interact and behave in groups
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9780822522546 | Lerner Pub Group, June 1, 1991, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Describes the complex and varied ways animals, from termites to migrating birds,interact and behave in groups

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Scratch-board illustrations enhance explanations of the backgrounds to several animal species' group names, including a kettle of hawks, a swarm of bees, and a gaggle of geese
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9780688092795 | Reprint edition (Lothrop Lee & Shepard, March 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Discusses six animals that periodically form groups, including a swarm of bees, colony of ants, and kettle of hawks.

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9780688092801 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, March 1, 1990, cover price $13.88 | About this edition: Discusses six animals that periodically form groups, including a swarm of bees, colony of ants, and kettle of hawks.

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Describes the day-to-day lives of chimpanzees in the wild, looks at how they find food, communicate, and raise their young, and offers a glimpse at their complex society
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9780029115800 | Free Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Describes the day-to-day lives of chimpanzees in the wild, looks at how they find food, communicate, and raise their young, and offers a glimpse at their complex society

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Product Description: Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most currentinformation on primate socioecology and its theoretical andempirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioralbiology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very richsource of ideas about other taxa...read more
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9780226767161 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 1987, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most currentinformation on primate socioecology and its theoretical andempirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioralbiology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology.

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Discusses the study of social animals and three particular groups of them: wolves, lemurs, and termites.
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9780374356941 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A look at non-human societies focuses on the lifestyles of a wolf pack, a band of lemurs, and a colony of termites

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9780404145019 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1931, cover price $28.00

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