Home Ranges of Animals

Cognitive Maps, Research Approaches, and Insights
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-285833-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Animals have tremendous agency to understand the world around them and to plan how to take best advantage of that world to meet their requirements. Their perception of the world differs from humans' and includes knowledge emphasizing different senses. This book argues that to understand animals' home ranges, which are integral to the behavior and ecology of animals, biologists must understand their cognition of their environments.

Presenting diverse, complementary approaches to studying home ranges, this book shows how using multiple approaches sheds a broad light on how and why animals behave as they do. The book also provides many examples showing how hypothesis-driven research provides strong insights into animal behavior and ecology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell, Roger A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- An Introduction to Home Ranges

- Territories

- Cognitive Maps and the Definition of a Home Range

- Movement

- Information, Movements, and Home Ranges

- Mechanistic Familiarity Distributions

- Economic and Cost-Benefit Models and Home Ranges

- Foraging Optimally for a Home Range

- Game Theory and Home Ranges

- Familiarity Distributions

- Building Familiarity Distributions

- Familiarity Distributions

- A Doorway to New Cogitations on Home Ranges

Über Autor(innen)

After earning his BA from Carleton College and his PhD from the University of Chicago, Roger A. Powell arrived at North Carolina State University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He teaches courses in Animal Behavior, Animal Ecology, Evolution, and Wildlife Management in the classroom and in the field. His research emphasizes animals' home ranges from diverse perspectives, mostly using predatory mammals as subjects.