Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Rodent Societies as Model Systems -- 2 Rodent Evolution, Phylogenetics, and Biogeography -- Sexual Behavior -- 3 Male Mating Strategies in Rodents -- 4 Reproductive Strategies in Female Rodents -- 5 Sexual Selection: Using Social Ecology to Determine Fitness Differences -- 6 A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Breeding Systems of Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents -- 7 Alternative Reproductive Tactics and Strategies of Tree Squirrels -- Life Histories and Behavior -- 8 Fast and Slow Life Histories of Rodents -- 9 Acceleration and Delay of Reproduction in Rodents -- 10 Sexual Size Dimorphism in Rodents -- 11 Facultative Sex Ratio Adjustment -- 12 The Role of the Stress Axis in Life-History Adaptations -- 13 Dispersal and Philopatry -- 14 Gene Dynamics and Social Behavior -- 15 Social Behavior and Self-Regulation in Murid Rodents -- Behavioral Development -- 16 Neural Regulation of Social Behavior in Rodents -- 17 Ontogeny of Adaptive Behaviors -- 18 Social Learning by Rodents -- 19 Kin Recognition in Rodents: Issues and Evidence -- Social Behavior -- 20 Parental Care -- 21 The Ecology of Sociality in Rodents -- 22 Scent Marking -- 23 Nonparental Infanticide -- 24 Social Organization and Monogamy in the Beaver -- 25 Evolution of Pacifism and Sociality in Blind Mole-Rats -- Antipredator Behavior -- 26 Social and Antipredator Systems: Intertwining Links in Multiple Time Frames -- 27 The Evolution of Alarm Communication in Rodents: Structure, Function, and thePuzzle of Apparently Altruistic Calling -- 28 Fear and the Foraging, Breeding, and Sociality of Rodents -- Comparative Socioecology -- 29 Ecology, Kinship, and Ground Squirrel Sociality: Insights from Comparative Analyses -- 30 Evolution of Sociality in Marmots: It Begins with Hibernation.

31 Environmental Constraints and the Evolution of Sociality in Semifossorial DesertRodents -- 32 Comparative Social Organization and Life History of Rattus and Mus -- 33 Social Organization and Resource Use in Capybaras and Maras -- 34 Social Structure in Octodontid and Ctenomyid Rodents -- 35 Socioecology of Rock-Dwelling Rodents -- 36 African Mole-Rats: Social and Ecological Diversity -- 37 Alarm Calling, Multiple Mating, and Infanticide among Black-Tailed, Gunnison's, andUtah Prairie Dogs -- Conservation and Disease -- 38 Issues in Rodent Conservation -- 39 Conservation of Ground Squirrels -- 40 Conservation of Prairie Dogs -- 41 Social Behavior, Demography, and Rodent-Borne Pathogens -- Conclusions -- 42 Conclusions and Future Directions -- References -- Subject Index -- Species Index.