Anuran tadpoles are favorite subjects for herpetologists because of their abundance, ease of culture, diversity, and adaptive strategies. In recent years these have served as model organisms in investigating many phenomena such as aggregation structure and function, kin recognition, prey- predator interactions, phenotypic plasticity, cannibalism, etc. The book is divided into 5 chapters. Chapter 1 deals with the ability of the tadpoles to asses the profitability of food habitats and distribute acordingly (ideal free distribution) is tested. Chapter 2 deals with mechanism of food ...