Errata in Dugatkin, Principles of Animal Behavior
- This book never defines what a behavior is.
- Figure 2.8:
does not define what a "focal female" is.
- Figure 3.8:
this figure shows a mouse, but the text describes Mongolian gerbils.
- Chap 3, p. 89: "Once the neurotransmitter has served its function, it is destroyed by the nerve cell."
This is not true.
- Figure 4.4:
"Here we see the response to a single "dose" of water conditioned with bryozoan predators. Large colonies produce more spines."
What's the relationship between predation and colony size?
- Figure 4.18:
"low and high risk" should read "low- and high-predation".
- Chap 5, p. 164: The cactus finch is Geospiza scandens, not G. scadens.
- Figure 6.4:
Peacocks are a poor choice for illustrating direct benefits (food, safety?); there is no explanation of the female fitness graph.
- Figure 7.9:
"from monogamy to polygamy" -> "from monogamy to polygyny".
- Figure 8.18:
"workers are more related to the offspring of the queen (their sisters)" ->
"workers are more related to the offspring of the queen (their brothers)".
- Figure 10.25:
"Scavengers" should be "Scroungers".
- Figure 11.1:
"Confrontations with rattlesnakes". The snake in the picture is not a rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis oreganus),
nor a "gopher snake" (Pituophis melanoleucus catenifer); looks like a kingsnake.
- Chap 11, p. 386: "the profitability (see Chapter l0) of small food items was greater than the profitability of large
food items." Chapter 10 suggests the reverse in the great tit experiment.
- Figure 11.7:
Gray squirrels are tree squirrels and do not respond to predators by running on the ground.
- Figure 12.25:
This figure is not convincing that whale codas from different oceans are more different than from same ocean or area.
- Figure 13.4B:
This diagram makes no sense unless the orange points are the more profitable, not less.
- Chap 14, p. 503: "fluoxetine (Prozac), an inhibitor of serotonin":
fluoxetine blocks serotonin reuptake, actually increase synaptic serotonin.
- Chap 15, p. 515: Caddisfly does not belong in order Ephemeroptera, but in Trichoptera.
- Chap 15, p. 525: Sable antelope that engage in play fighting should not be called "infant".
- Chap 15, p. 533: "muriod rodents" -> "muroid rodents".
- Figure 16.10:
the rightmost diagram should contain a few males, rather than all females.
- Chap 16, p. 551: "The few males present, then, needed to court females vigorously to have any chance of obtaining a
mate". There should be less competition, not more, when there are fewer males.
