Merging evolutionary ecology and cognitive science, cognitive
ecology investigates how animal interactions with natural habitats
shape cognitive systems, and how constraints on nervous systems
limit or bias animal behavior. Research in cognitive ecology has
expanded rapidly in the past decade, and this second volume builds
on the foundations laid out in the first, published in 1998.
"Cognitive Ecology II" integrates numerous scientific
disciplines to analyze the ecology and evolution of animal
cognition. The contributors cover the mechanisms, ecology, and
evolution of learning and memory, including detailed analyses of
bee neurobiology, bird song, and spatial learning. They also
explore decision making, with mechanistic analyses of reproductive
behavior in voles, escape hatching by frog embryos, and predation
in the auditory domain of bats and eared insects. Finally, they
consider social cognition, focusing on alarm calls and the factors
determining social learning strategies of corvids, fish, and
mammals.
With cognitive ecology ascending to its rightful place in
behavioral and evolutionary research, this volume captures the
promise that has been realized in the past decade and looks forward
to new research prospects.
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