Advances in the Study of Behavior. Volume 51

Table of Contents

1. The troublesome gift: the spermatophylax as a purveyor of sexual conflict and coercion in crickets Scott Sakaluk 2. Conformity and over-imitation: an integrative review of two forms of hyper-reliance on social learning Andrew Whiten 3. Sexual selection in polyandrous societies: Lessons from the fowl Tom Pizzari 4. Cowbird cognition: The mental abilities of a brood parasite David White 5. Sexual selection and social behavior in spiders Maydianne Andrade

Authors

Marc Naguib Professor, Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Animal Sciences Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Marc Naguib is professor in Behavioural Ecology at the Animal Sciences Department of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He studied biology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and received his PhD (1995) at UNC Chapel Hill, NC in the US. After his PhD held positions at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (1995-1999) and Bielefeld University (2000-2007) in Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (2008-2011), until he was appointed in 2011 as Chair of the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is specialized in vocal communication, social behaviour, animal personality and the effects of conditions experienced during early development on behaviour and life history traits, mainly using song birds as model. His research group is also involved in animal welfare research using farm animals. He has served for many years on the council of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and of the Ethologische Gesellschaft. He published > 80 scientific publications and has been Editor for Advances in the Study of Behaviour since 2003. Since 2014 he is Executive Editor.