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At first sight just a small brown bird, the dunnock's unobtrusive
appearance belies its extraordinary behaviour and mating patterns.
In this book Nick Davies gives a full account of the mating systems
of the dunnock or hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, which include
pairs, a male with two females, two males with one female, and
several males with several females. Detailed observations, elegant
field experiments, and DNA fingerprinting are combined to show how
this variable social organization from selfish individuals
competing to maximize their own reproductive success. Further
experiments reveal how the cuckoo may thwart the dunnock's parental
efforts. David Quinn's exquisite drawings provide a visual summary
of the birds' behaviour. All students of ecology, evolution, and
animal behaviour will want to be familiar with this work, which
addresses the wider issues of the influence of ecology on mating
systems and the evolutionary significance of conflict within and
between species. This is the third volume in the Oxford Series in
Ecology and Evolution, and the first in this series to tackly
behavioural ecology. Nick Davies is a Lecturer in Zoology at the
University of Cambridge and co-editor with J. R. Krebs of the
leading text in the field, Behavioural ecology: an evolutionary
approach.
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