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Author: Eugene S. Morton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-06
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1107052254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents a new approach to conceptualizing animal vocal communication, with an emphasis on how receivers' responses influence signalling.
Author: Eugene S. Morton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-06
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1108132642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do animals communicate using sounds? How did animal vocal communication arise and evolve? Exploring a new way to conceptualize animal communication, this new edition moves beyond an earlier emphasis on the role of senders in managing receiver behaviour, to examine how receivers' responses influence signalling. It demonstrates the importance of the perceiver role in driving the evolution of communication, for instance in mimicry, and thus shifts the emphasis from a linguistic to a form/function approach to communication. Covering a wide range of animals from frogs to humans, this new edition includes new sections on human prosodic elements in speech, the vocal origins of smiles and laughter and deliberately irritating sounds and is ideal for researchers and students of animal behaviour and in fields such as sensory biology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology.
Author: Donald Henry Owings
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald H. Owings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-04-23
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521324687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will be a landmark text for all those interested in animal communication. Animal Vocal Communication explicitly avoids human-centred concepts and approaches and links communication to fundamental biological processes instead. It offers a conceptual framework - assessment/management - that allows us to integrate detailed studies of communication with an understanding of evolutionary perspectives. Self-interested assessment is placed on par with the signal production (management) side of communication, and communication is viewed as reflecting regulatory processes. Signals are used to manage the behaviour of others by exploiting their active assessment. The authors contend that it is this interplay between management and assessment that results in the functioning and evolution of animal communication; it is what communicative behaviour accomplishes that is important, not what information is conveyed.
Author: H. Papousek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-05-29
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521412650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book specialists from several disciplines review the present knowledge on neural substrates of vocal communication.
Author: P. K. McGregor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-03-31
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 9781139443678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost animal communication has evolved and now takes place in the context of a communication network, i.e. several signallers and receivers within communication range of each other. This idea follows naturally from the observation that many signals travel further than the average spacing between animals. This is self evidently true for long-range signals, but at a high density the same is true for short-range signals (e.g. begging calls of nestling birds). This book provides a current summary of research on communication networks and appraises future prospects. It combines information from studies of several taxonomic groups (insects to people via fiddler crabs, fish, frogs, birds and mammals) and several signalling modalities (visual, acoustic and chemical signals). It also specifically addresses the many areas of interface between communication networks and other disciplines (from the evolution of human charitable behaviour to the psychophysics of signal perception, via social behaviour, physiology and mathematical models).
Author: Henrik Brumm
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 364241494X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of animal communication has led to significant progress in our general understanding of motor and sensory systems, evolution, and speciation. However, one often neglected aspect is that signal exchange in every modality is constrained by noise, be it in the transmission channel or in the nervous system. This book analyses whether and how animals can cope with such constraints, and explores the implications that noise has for our understanding of animal communication. It is written by leading biologists working on different taxa including insects, fish, amphibians, lizards, birds, and mammals. In addition to this broad taxonomic approach, the chapters also cover a wide array of research disciplines: from the mechanisms of signal production and perception, to the behavioural ecology of signalling, the evolution of animal communication, and conservation issues. This volume promotes the integration of the knowledge gained by the diverse approaches to the study of animal communication and, at the same time, highlights particularly interesting fields of current and future research.
Author: Arik Kershenbaum
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2024-01-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780241559857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy Animals Talk is a scientific journey through the untamed world of animal communication. From the majestic howls of wolves and the enchanting chatter of parrots to the melodic clicks of dolphins and the spirited grunts of chimpanzees, these diverse and seemingly bizarre expressions are far from mere noise. In fact, they hold secrets that we are just beginning to decipher. For example, wolves - just like humans - possess unique accents that distinguish their howls, and not only do dolphins give themselves names, but they also respond excitedly to recordings of the whistles of long-lost companions. Chapter by chapter and animal by animal, Kershenbaum draws on his extensive research and observations of animals in the wild to explain the science behind why animals are communicating. Also revealing profound insights into our own language and why it is different, Why Animals Talks tells the comprehensive story of communication and how it works across the entire animal kingdom.
Author: Marc Naguib
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2009-08-06
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 008092266X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This thematic volume, Vocal Communication in Birds and Mammals, makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields.
Author: Eugene S. Morton
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that humans must put aside the mastery of language in order to make scientific sense of animal sound production.
