Chapter 10 Opener There are both immediate physiological and long-term evolutionary causes for why this male blue-cheeked bee-eater produces vocalizations when communicating with other bee-eaters

Figure 10.1 Evolution by natural selection shapes the mechanisms of behavior, as illustrated by the prairie vole’s mating behavior

Table 10.1 Levels of analysis in the study of animal behavior

Figure 10.2 Recruitment patterns in the honey bee

Figure 10.2 Recruitment patterns in the honey bee (Part 1)

Figure 10.2 Recruitment patterns in the honey bee (Part 2)

Figure 10.2 Recruitment patterns in the honey bee (Part 3)

Figure 10.3 Prairie voles are monogamous

Figure 10.4 The evolutionary relationships of the prairie vole and six of its relatives

Figure 10.5 The brain of the prairie vole, like that of all mammals, is a complex, evolved mechanism with special features whose operation helps explain vole behavior

Figure 10.5 The brain of the prairie vole, like that of all mammals, is a complex, evolved mechanism with special features whose operation helps explain vole behavior (Part 1)

Figure 10.5 The brain of the prairie vole, like that of all mammals, is a complex, evolved mechanism with special features whose operation helps explain vole behavior (Part 2)

Figure 10.6 A gene that affects male pairing behavior in the prairie vole

Figure 10.7 Song dialects in whitecrowned sparrows

Figure 10.8 Hearing and song learning

Figure 10.8 Hearing and song learning (Part 1)

Figure 10.8 Hearing and song learning (Part 2)

Figure 10.9 Song learning hypothesis based on laboratory experiments with white-crowned sparrows

Figure 10.10 Social experience influences song development

Figure 10.11 Social effects on song learning

Figure 10.12 Sonograms of contact calls of two parrots

Figure 10.12 Sonograms of contact calls of two parrots (Part 1)

Figure 10.12 Sonograms of contact calls of two parrots (Part 2)

Figure 10.12 Sonograms of contact calls of two parrots (Part 3)

Figure 10.13 The song preferences of female starlings

Figure 10.13 The song preferences of female starlings (Part 1)

Figure 10.13 The song preferences of female starlings (Part 2)

Figure 10.14 The song system of a typical songbird

Figure 10.15 Difference in the size of one nucleus of the song system

Figure 10.16 Song competition in the starling

Figure 10.16 Song competition in the starling (Part 1)

Figure 10.16 Song competition in the starling (Part 2)

Figure 10.17 Single cells and song learning in the swamp sparrow

Figure 10.17 Single cells and song learning in the swamp sparrow (Part 1)

Figure 10.17 Single cells and song learning in the swamp sparrow (Part 2)

Figure 10.18 Two phylogenies of song learning in birds

Figure 10.18 Two phylogenies of song learning in birds (Part 1)

Figure 10.18 Two phylogenies of song learning in birds (Part 2)

Figure 10.19 The song control systems of parrots, hummingbirds, and oscine songbirds

Figure 10.20 Songs match habitats

Figure 10.20 Songs match habitats (Part 1)

Figure 10.20 Songs match habitats (Part 2)

Figure 10.21 The dialects of whitecrowned sparrows in three parts of San Francisco

Figure 10.21 The dialects of whitecrowned sparrows in three parts of San Francisco (Part 1)

Figure 10.21 The dialects of whitecrowned sparrows in three parts of San Francisco (Part 2)

Figure 10.21 The dialects of whitecrowned sparrows in three parts of San Francisco (Part 3)

Figure 10.22 Two white-crowned sparrow songs from different dialect populations

Figure 10.23 Dialect selection by male white-crowned sparrows

Figure 10.24 Song type matching in the song sparrow

Figure 10.24 Song type matching in the song sparrow (Part 1)

Figure 10.24 Song type matching in the song sparrow (Part 2)

Figure 10.25 Song matching and communication of aggressive intent in the song sparrow

Figure 10.26 Male Cassin’s finches sing to attract females

Figure 10.26 Male Cassin’s finches sing to attract females (Part 1)

Figure 10.26 Male Cassin’s finches sing to attract females (Part 2)

Figure 10.27 Nutritional stress early in life has large effects on song learning by male swamp sparrows

Figure 10.27 Nutritional stress early in life has large effects on song learning by male swamp sparrows (Part 1)

Figure 10.27 Nutritional stress early in life has large effects on song learning by male swamp sparrows (Part 2)

Figure 10.28 The mean number of precopulatory displays in response to differences in song quality

Figure 10.28 The mean number of precopulatory displays in response to differences in song quality (Part 1)

Figure 10.28 The mean number of precopulatory displays in response to differences in song quality (Part 2)