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Title Spider behaviour : flexibility and versatility / edited by Marie Elisabeth Herberstein.
Publisher Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description xii, 391 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
 book jacket
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 CLP Main (Oakland) Second Floor - Non-fiction  QL458.4.S633 2011     AVAILABLE

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Spider biology / Marie E. Herberstein and Anne Wignall -- Flexibility in the foraging strategies of spiders / Ximena J. Nelson and Robert R. Jackson -- Spider webs : evolution, diversity and plasticity / Marie E. Herberstein and I-Min Tso -- Flexible use of anti-predator defences / Ximena J. Nelson and Robert R. Jackson -- Communication / Gabriele Uhl and Damian O. Elias -- Deceptive signals in spiders / Marie E. Herberstein and Anne Wignall -- Mating behaviour and sexual selection / Jutta Schneider and Maydianne Andrade -- Group living in spiders : cooperative breeding and coloniality / Trine Bilde and Yael Lubin -- Plasticity, learning and cognition / Elizabeth Jakob, Christa Skow and Skye Long -- Kleptoparasitic spiders of the subfamily Argyrodinae : a special case of behavioural plasticity / Mary Whitehouse.
Subject Spiders -- Behavior.
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Addt'l Author Herberstein, Marie Elisabeth.
ISBN 9780521765299 (hardcover)
0521765293 (hardcover)
9780521749275 (pbk.)
0521749271 (pbk.)