Author : Jens Krause
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198508175
Shoals, swarms, flocks, herds--group formation is a widespread phenomenon in animal populations. It raises several interesting questions for behavioral ecologists. Why do animals form and live in groups, and what factors influence the ways in which they do this? What are the costs and benefits to an anmimal of group living? How are these influenced by ecological factors?