The Ostrich Communal Nesting System
by Bertram, Brian C.R.

Format: Hardcover
Status: Out of print
Code: 11383
Condition: Used, As New
Dust Jacket: As new
Edition: First edition

Product Details
As new hardcover in dust jacket. The author unravels the basis of the cooperation observed, and explains how a system involving apparent altruism is maintained by natural selection and presents new data on the ostrich communal nesting system, in which several females lay in one female's nest, with only one female and the male doing all the work. Based on three seasons of study in Tsavo West National Park in Kenya.
ISBN: 0691087857
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year of Publication: 1992
Page Count: 196
Weight: 1.25 lb