Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow: The Effect of Group Size on Social Behavior

by Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown

Book Overview

Many animal species live and breed in colonies. Although biologists have documented numerous costs and benefits of group living, such as increased competition for limited resources and more pairs of eyes to watch for predators, they often still do not agree on why coloniality evolved in the first place.

Drawing on their twelve-year study of a population of cliff swallows in Nebraska, the Browns investigate twenty-six social and ecological costs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226076261
• ISBN13: 9780226076263
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"