Food Hoarding in Animals

In this first comprehensive synthesis of the literature on food hoarding in animals, Stephen B. Vander Wall discusses how animals store food, how they use food and how this use affects individual fitness, why and how food hoarding evolved, how cached food is lost, mechanisms for protecting and recovering cached food, physiological and behavioral factors that influence hoarding, and the impact that hoarding animals have on plant populations and plant dispersal. He then provides detailed coverage of hoarding behavior across taxa-mammals, birds, and arthropods-to address issues in evolution, ecology, and behavior. Drawings, photographs, and appendixes document complex and intrinsically interesting food-hoarding behaviors, and the bibliography of nearly 1,500 sources is itself an invaluable and unique reference.

ISBN:	9780226847351
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Imprint:	The University of Chicago Press
Published date:	10 Jul 1990
Language:	English
Number of pages:	453
Weight:	794g
Height:	255mm
Width:	180mm
Spine width:	26mm

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