Advances in the Study of Behavior - Stress and Behavior

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Stress and Behavior

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Contents

Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Concept of Stress and Its Relevance for Animal Behavior

I. Introduction

II. The Concept of Stress

III. Social Stress in Mammals

IV. Summary

References

Chapter 2. Stress and Immune Response

I. Introduction

II. The Nature of Stress

III. The Nature of Immunocompetence

IV. Neurological Linking of Stress and Immunocompetence

V. Endocrine Linkage of Stress and Immunocompetence

Vl. Why Stress Alters Immunocompetence

VII. Summary

References

Chapter 3. Behavioral Variability and Limits to Evolutionary Adaptation under Stress

I. Introduction

II. Energy Limits to Adaptation

III. Variability and the Survival of Variants

IV. Extending the Limits of Adaptation

V. From Stress-Resistance Genotypes to a Connected Metabolism

VI. Summary

References

Chapter 4. Developmental Instability as a General Measure of Stress

I. Introduction

II. Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Developmental Instability

III. Directional Selection and Developmental Instability

IV. Fitness Correlates of Developmental Instability

V. Practical Uses of Developmental Instability

VI. Conclusions and Prospects for Future Studies

VII. Summary

References

Chapter 5. Stress and Decision-Making under the Risk of Predation: Recent Developments from Behavioral, Reproductive, and Ecological Perspectives

I. Introduction

II. Behavior of Feeding Animals: Classical Motivations

III. Patterns of Activity

IV. After an Encounter with a Predator

V. Social Situations

VI. Reproduction

VII. Long-Term Consequences of Decision Making

VIII. Ecological Influences and Implications

IX. Additional Considerations

X. Conclusions and Summary

References

Chapter 6. Parasitic Stress and Self-Medication in Wild Animals

I. Introduction

II. Self-Medication

III. Prophylactic Self Medication

IV. Therapeutic Self-Medication

V. Skepticism

VI. Behavioral Mechanisms

VII. Implications

VIII. Summary and Conclusions

References

Chapter 7. Stress and Human Behavior: Attractiveness, Women’s Sexual Development, Postpartum Depression, and Baby’s Cry

I. Introduction

II. Human Attraction and Attractiveness

III. Parent–Daughter Relations and Women’s Sexual Behavior

IV. Postpartum Depression

V. Infant Crying as a Signal of Phenotypic Quality

VI. Summary

References

Chapter 8. Welfare, Stress, and the Evolution of Feelings

I. Feelings, Their Role and Their Evolution

II. Welfare, Stress, and Feelings

III. Summary

References

Chapter 9. Biological Conservation and Stress

I. Introduction

II. Stress in a Conservation Biology Context

III. Designing a Conservation Study to Measure Stress and Its Impact

IV. The Natural History of Stress

V. Effects of Anthropogenic Stressors

VI. Conservation Research and Management Activities as Stressors

VII. The Equivalence of Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors

VIII. Minimizing Occurrence and Impact of Stress in Conservation Research and Management

IX. Conclusions: How Important Is Stress in Biological Conservation?

X. Summary

References

Index

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