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Animal Architecture (Paperback, New)
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Animal Architecture (Paperback, New)
Series: Oxford Animal Biology Series
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Construction behaviour occurs across the entire spectrum of the
animal kingdom and affects the survival of both builders and other
organisms associated with them. Animal Architecture provides a
comprehensive overview of the biology of animal building. The book
recognizes three broad categories of built structure: homes, traps,
and courtship displays. Even though some of these structures are
complex and very large, the behaviour required to build them is
generally simple and the anatomy for building unspecialized.
Standardization of building materials helps to keep building
repertoires simple, while self-organizing effects help create
complexity. In a case-study approach to function, insects
demonstrate how homes can remain operational while they grow,
spiderwebs illustrate mechanical design, and the displays of
bowerbirds raise the possibility of persuasion through design
rather than just decoration. Studies of the costs to builders
provide evidence of optimal designs and of trade-offs with other
life history traits. As ecosystem engineers, the influence of
builders is extensive and their effect is generally to enhance
biodiversity through niche construction. Animal builders can
therefore represent model species for the study of the emerging
subject of environmental inheritance. Building, and in particular
building with silk, has been demonstrated to have important
evolutionary consequences. This book is intended for students and
researchers in comparative animal biology, but will also be of
relevance and use to the increasing numbers of architects and civil
engineers interested in developing ideas from the animal kingdom.
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