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Index
Adams, Floyd, [>], [>], [>]
Adams-York family: history of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Agan, Anne, [>]
aggregative behavior, [>]–[>], [>]. See also gregariousness
Akesson, Suzanne, [>]
albatrosses: homing in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
alewives: as invasive species, [>]
Alexander, Richard D.: studies social behavior, [>], [>]
amphibians: homing in, [>]
Animal Architecture (von Frisch), [>]
ants: as predators, [>]
home-making in, [>], [>], [>]
homing in, [>], [>], [>]
and myrmecophiles, [>]
navigation by, [>]–[>]
use of scent, [>]
aphids: migration by, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
apple trees: Chapman plants, [>]–[>]
cultivated in Maine, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
spread by bears, [>]
Audubon, John James: on passenger pigeons, [>]–[>]
Baun, Henry, [>]
bears: apple trees spread by, [>]
beavers: home-making in, [>]–[>]
life cycle of, [>]–[>]
bedbugs: and birds, [>]–[>]
and humans, [>]–[>]
Bee Hunter, The (Edgell), [>]
beech trees: birds disperse seeds of, [>]
Beekman, Madeleine, [>]–[>]
beelining, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
bees: behavioral experiments with, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
communication among, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
habitat, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
home-making in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
home site selection in, [>]–[>]
homing in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and honeycomb construction, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
imported to America, [>]–[>]
navigation by, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
reproductive behavior, [>]–[>]
robotic replacement for, [>]–[>]
social behavior in, [>]–[>]
social consensus in, [>]–[>]
symbiosis with humans, [>]–[>]
use of scent, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language (von Frisch), [>]
beetles, ladybird: migration by, [>]–[>]
beetles, scarab: navigation by, [>]–[>]
beetles, whirligig water, [>]
Berthold, Peter, [>]
birds. See also individual species
banding of, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
bedbugs and, [>]–[>]
behavioral experiments with, [>]
caching behavior, [>]–[>], [>]
collecting expedition to Suriname, [>]–[>]
disperse tree seeds, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
gregariousness in, [>]–[>]
home-making in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
home site selection in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
homing experiments with, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
migration by, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
mites and, [>]–[>]
navigation by, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
nest hygiene in, [>]–[>]
nest-stealing in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
reproductive behavior, [>]–[>]
symbiosis with humans, [>]–[>]
Birds and Poets (Burroughs), [>]–[>]
bison, American: extinction of, [>], [>], [>]
boundaries: evolutionary function of, [>], [>], [>]
technology’s effect on, [>]–[>]
Brower, Lincoln P., [>]
Brown, Charles R. and Mary B., [>]
Brugger, Cathy and Ken, [>]
buntings, indigo: homing in, [>]–[>]
Burroughs, John: Birds and Poets, [>]–[>]
Bushmen: Thomas on, [>]–[>]
butterflies, monarch: homing in, [>]–[>], [>]
life cycle of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
migration by, [>]–[>], [>]
butterflies, painted lady: migration by, [>]–[>]
butterflies, red admiral: migration by, [>]–[>]
caddisflies: home-making in, [>]–[>]
Carr, Archie: turtle homing experiments by, [>]–[>]
caterpillars, moth: home-making in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
caterpillars, tent: foraging behavior, [>]–[>]
habitat, [>]–[>]
homing in, [>]–[>]
life cycle of, [>]–[>], [>]
predation against, [>]
Chapman, Jason W., [>]
Chapman, Jonathan: plants apple trees, [>]–[>]
Charlotte’s Web (White), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
birds disperse seeds of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
blight-resistance cultivated, [>