Hugh Drummond

Gebundenes Buch

Blue-Footed Boobies

Sibling Conflict and Sexual Infidelity on a Tropical Island

Beschreibung

In Blue-Footed Boobies, Hugh Drummond presents a lifetime field study of one of the planet's most charismatic and observable birds, focused on two themes of human relevance: aggressive competition between siblings and monogamous pair-bonding combined with frequent infidelity. In an account peppered with research anecdotes, he immerses readers in a bustling blue-footed booby colony where social manipulation and life-and-death dramas are the stuff of family life.

Autor

Hugh Drummond is an Emeritus Researcher in the Institute of Ecology in Mexico¿s National University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MÃ(c)xico (UNAM), in Mexico City. Formerly an English lawyer graduated from the University of Bristol in 1967, he has sustained a research program in Mexico City on the Behavioral Ecology of blue-footed boobies and other marine birds spanning forty years. He has supervised 76 theses and is considered the founder of Behavioral Ecology in Mexico. He has published nearly 100 research articles on boobies and other marine birds in international journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780197629840
• ISBN-10: 0197629849
• Artikelnr.: 67778728