Partnerships in Birds: The Study of Monogamy

This book will fill you in on the most up-to-date scientific findings about monogamy ... excellent for students of the natural sciences and a must for professionals in this field. * Friederike Woog, WWT Slimbridge, Bookshelf * This book provides an impressive treatment, empirical and theoretical, of these and other issues related to avian monogramy. Fourteen fine chapters, based on long-term empirical studies of individual species in 12 different avian families, are sandwiched between opening and closing sections that deal with the theoretical issues related to monogramy. * J. David Ligon, University of New Mexico, Science, Vo. 276, April 1997 * This book is part of a series providing in-depth discussions of diverse topics in ornithology, ranging from general topics to species monographs ... a comprehensive review of avian monogamy. * Biological Abstracts, vol.49, issue 8 * the species chapters constitute a valuable reference source for all students of mating systems and the framing chapters a must for those who need to know the state of the art in avian divorce * Staffan Bensch, Animal Behaviour, 54,6 * the editor brings together an impressive collection of theoretical and empirical studies that address the evolution of mate fidelity and divorce ... Partnerships in Birds provides a good review of our current ideas about why so many birds are monogamous in the face of such sexual promiscuity. I recommend it to anyone interested in the evolution of avian reproductive strategies. * James Briskie, Ibis 140 *