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3 - Social behaviour and bird song from a neural and endocrine perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan ,
Timothy J. DeVoogd  and
Jordan M. Moore
Edited by
Tamás Székely ,
Allen J. Moore  and
Jan Komdeur
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
Affiliation:
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Timothy J. DeVoogd
Affiliation:
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Jordan M. Moore
Affiliation:
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Tamás Székely
Affiliation:
University of Bath
Allen J. Moore
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
Jan Komdeur
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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Tinbergen (1963) proposed that in order to understand behaviour it is necessary to discover not only its adaptive function and phylogenetic history (now often referred to as ultimate causation) but also its development and physiology (proximate causation). In recent years there has been increasing appreciation of the importance of pursuing these four aims not only separately but also in an integrated manner that allows them to inform each other. Hormonal and neural mechanisms are best understood in an ecological and evolutionary context. An appreciation of how they work is essential both for understanding the ecology and evolution of behaviour, and for linking genes to behaviour. This chapter will discuss hormonal and neural bases of social behaviour, emphasising basic principles, recent trends and questions for the future, with a more extended discussion of bird song as a prime example of a social behaviour that has inspired a substantial body of integrative research. Special attention will be given to learned song and the songbird neural song system that underlies the learning, production and perception of song. As a neural system that is anatomically well defined, dedicated to an important category of social behaviour, and hormonally influenced, the song system is uniquely valuable for elucidating general principles of the mechanisms of social behaviour.

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Genes, Ecology and Evolution
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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