Fish Behavior 1 : Eco-Ethology.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Habitats: Occupation, Protection and Exploitation -- 1.1. Diverse and unusual habitats -- 1.1.1. Psammophilous* habitats -- 1.1.2. Reef cavity habitats -- 1.1.3. Rocky habitats -- 1.1.4. Plant habitats -- 1.1.5. Zoohabitats -- 1.1.6. Intertidal* habitats -- 1.1.7. Karst* habitats -- 1.1.8. Intermittent habitats -- 1.1.9. Habitats modified by other animals -- 1.1.10. Manmade habitats -- 1.1.11. Ecological niches not frequented by other species -- 1.1.12. Seemingly unlimited pelagic habitats -- 1.1.13. Temporal fluctuations in habitat occupancy -- 1.1.14. Ontogenic and/or physiological fluctuations -- 1.1.15. An amphibious existence -- 1.1.16. An underground life -- 1.1.17. Living in the abyss -- 1.2. Food: the use of trophic habitats -- 1.2.1. Choose more or less energy-giving foods -- 1.2.2. Adopt original hunting methods -- 1.2.3. Use of cannibalism -- 1.2.4. Practice grazing -- 1.3. Individual and collective protective habitats -- 1.3.1. Protecting oneself from environmental factors -- 1.3.2. Protecting oneself from congeners and competing species -- 1.3.3. Protecting oneself from predators -- 1.3.4. Practicing the art of camouflage -- 1.3.5. A safe resting phase -- 1.3.6. Owning and defending a territory -- 1.4. Breeding habitats (Volume 2, section 2.1) -- 2. Strategies and Tactics for the Occupation of Available Territories -- 2.1. Faithfulness to habitat and birth site -- 2.1.1. Remaining faithful to one's habitat -- 2.1.2. Loyalty to one's birth site -- 2.2. Habitat changes -- 2.2.1. The great migrators -- 2.2.2. Navigators -- 2.2.3. Great travelers -- 2.2.4. Divers -- 2.2.5. Illegal migrants -- 2.2.6. Adapting to ambient hydrodynamics -- 2.2.7. Overcoming an obstacle -- 2.3. The colonization of new territories.

2.3.1. Invaders -- 2.3.2. Western colonizers -- 2.3.3. Eastern colonizers -- 2.3.4. Invasions of tropical species -- 2.3.5. Parasitic invasions -- 2.3.6. A most unfortunate introduction -- 2.3.7. Marine "aliens" -- 2.3.8. Recent tropical peril -- 2.3.9. Marine reserves and fish farms: habitats that facilitate migration? -- 2.3.10. Other colonization related to aquaculture -- 2.3.11. Unexplained presence -- 3. Communication and Social Life: Behaviors Related to Social Interrelations between Congeners, Parasites and Predators -- 3.1. Communication between partners -- 3.1.1. Accurate information signals -- 3.1.2. Fast and efficient visual signals -- 3.1.3. Useful and precise olfactory signals -- 3.1.4. Substitution phenomena between sensory signals -- 3.1.5. Highly informative auditory signals -- 3.1.6. Remarkably discriminating electrical signals -- 3.1.7. Champions of neuroethology -- 3.2. Neighborly warning -- 3.2.1. Beneficial altruism between congeners -- 3.2.2. Acoustic solidarity for defensive purposes -- 3.2.3. A chemical alert for olfactory purposes -- 3.2.4. A survival benefit linked to competition between predators -- 3.2.5. Anxiety disorders triggered by alarm substances -- 3.3. Groups, shoals, swarms and masses -- 3.3.1. A simple convergence of interests -- 3.3.2. Artificial groupings of anthropogenic origin -- 3.3.3. Unity is strength -- 3.3.4. Choice of association -- 3.3.5. Coordinated swimming under light conditions -- 3.3.6. A defense: reducing vulnerability to predation -- 3.3.7. Learning to be careful in social relationships -- 3.3.8. Less need for security -- 3.3.9. Different motivations -- 3.3.10. Protection against parasites -- 3.3.11. Unique protection for females: reducing sexual harassment -- 3.3.12. Forming unisex communities -- 3.3.13. An energy goal: reducing the costs of movement.

3.3.14. The advantage of a collective memory -- 3.3.15. Another objective: increasing opportunities for food -- 3.3.16. Who is the leader? -- 3.3.17. A colonization strategy -- 3.3.18. The role of collective education -- 3.3.19. A social life under cerebral neuroendocrine control -- 3.4. Mutualists and parasites -- 3.4.1. A model of association -- 3.4.2. Ectoparasites -- 3.4.3. Endoparasites -- 3.4.4. Accommodation of eggs by hosts -- 3.4.5. Zoophile fish -- 3.5. Cleaners -- 3.5.1. Removing parasites for "good customers" -- 3.5.2. Unsustainable early skills -- 3.5.3. Flexibility under neurohormonal control -- 3.5.4. A sometimes dishonest job -- 3.5.5. A clownfish that acts as a cleaner… or a cleaner-turned clownfish? -- 3.6. Helpers -- 3.6.1. Social cooperation in parental care -- 3.6.2. Helpers able to escape their servitude -- 3.6.3. Behavioral gender differences -- 3.7. Selection of sexual partners -- 3.7.1. A major concern for any progenitor: choosing a partner -- 3.7.2. Social learning -- 3.7.3. Most importantly, avoid choosing the wrong partner -- 3.7.4. How can the best partners be identified? -- 3.7.5. Initial choices -- 3.7.6. Varying preferences -- 3.7.7. Copying others -- 3.7.8. The desire for novelty -- 3.7.9. Females who refuse -- 3.7.10. Reconstituted couples -- 3.7.11. No choice -- 3.8. Sexual conflicts -- 3.8.1. Conflicting interactions between sexes -- 3.8.2. Intrasexual conflicts -- 3.8.3. Incompatibility between ecotypes -- 3.8.4. Who will win this conflict? -- 3.8.5. A conflict that ends in divorce -- 3.9. Joint provision of parental care -- 3.10. Competitors -- 3.10.1. Being a good observer -- 3.10.2. Competition for space -- 3.10.3. Competition for food -- 3.10.4. Sexual competition -- 3.10.5. Competition for nest building -- 3.10.6. Sperm competition -- 3.10.7. Females intervening to their advantage in sperm competition.

3.10.8. Cases of social deprivation -- 3.10.9. Love or war or love and war -- 3.10.10. Females in competition using physical arguments -- 3.10.11. Chemical weapons -- 3.10.12. Dominance expressed through fecal olfactory signals -- 3.10.13. A peaceful solution for escaping competition -- 3.10.14. Cases of non-aggression -- 3.11. Sense of family and recognition of familiar congeners -- 3.11.1. The value of recognizing "blood ties" -- 3.11.2. Interfamilial crossbreeding in spite of genetic barriers -- 3.11.3. Known congeners -- Glossary -- Species Index -- Summary of Volume 2 -- Other titles from iSTE in Ecological Science -- EULA.

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