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On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups Book

Chimpanzees, the human species' closest living relatives, spend their lives in serial relationships: they feed, sleep, mate and socialise in groups whose members constantly change. Given this complex and fluid social environment, how do chimps co-ordinate their movements to travel as a group to, say, another feeding spot? The question of how animals organise their group movements has long puzzled observers; even today, the mechanics of how monarch butterflies and arctic terns move from place to place are matters of considerable conjecture. In On the Move, 30 leading scholars examine that question and its implications for the study of animal communication, cognition and memory. Some argue that carnivores and non-human primates lack mental representations and "game plans" for movement, relying instead on "rules of thumb" to gather information about the ground before them; other scholars maintain that phenomena like the echolocation of dolphins and whales and the long-distance, movement-co-ordinating signals of elephants suggest a complex knowledge of local environments. What is certain, the contributors seem to agree, is that "group movement is as much a social behaviour as it is an ecological response to the distribution and availability of resources and risks," and therefore well worthy of continued study. --Gregory McNameeRead More

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    On the Move - How and Why Animals Travel in Groups : Paperback : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226063409 : 0226063402 : 15 May 2000 : This study of group travel examines the social, cognitive and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. It uses field studies of a wide range of human and non-human primate groups as well as hyenas, birds, dolphins and bees.

  • 0226063402
  • 9780226063409
  • S Boinski
  • 2 May 2000
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 822
  • 2nd
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