Appetite Interrupted

Appetite Interrupted: The Role of Predators in Shaping the Behavioral Ecology and Physiology of Satiety explores how mechanisms suppress feeding in vertebrates within both physiological and ecological contexts. Highlighting predation's role as a selective pressure, the book identifies novel neuroendocrine pathways through future research. Written by an expert, it systematically examines the behavioral ecology, evolutionary pressures, physiological processes, and stressors affecting foraging and feeding behaviors in vertebrates. The book covers why animals stop eating, selective pressures driving the evolution of hunger suppression mechanisms, and physiological controls inhibiting feeding, including stress, anxiety, and fear.

It concludes with humans' pathways and obesity evolution, offering practical applications for human nutrition.

• Showcases the latest developments in the ecology of foraging and predator avoidance tradeoffs
• Summarizes the latest developments in the behavioral and physiological mechanisms inhibiting eating and their evolution
• Explores the latest developments in the support for predator release as a theory for the evolution of obesity in humans
• Presents case studies to aid students in learning key concepts in the ecology and physiology of feeding