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Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110862859
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Approaches to Animal Communication written by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc D. Hauser
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262582230
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Design of Animal Communication written by Marc D. Hauser and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the approach laid out in the 1950s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen, this book looks at animal communication from the four perspectives of mechanisms, ontogeny, function, and phylogeny.
Author : W. John Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674064669
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Behavior of Communicating written by W. John Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. John Smith enlarges ethology's perspective on communication and takes it in new directions. Traditionally, ethnological analysis has focused on the motivational states of displaying animals. The Behavior of Communicating emphasizes messages. After developing the concept of messages and discussing their forms, Smith turns to the evolution of display behavior. He then revises the traditional ethnological concept of displays and in a final chapter develops the further concept of formalized interactions.
Author : Thomas Albert Sebeok
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Approaches in Animal Communication written by Thomas Albert Sebeok and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulrich Stegmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013100
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Animal Communication Theory written by Ulrich Stegmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable overview and analysis of foundational concepts in animal behaviour studies, including information, meaning, communication, signals and cues. Its comprehensive introduction and numerous illustrations will make it accessible to students and researchers from a wide variety of academic backgrounds, ranging from ethology and evolutionary biology to philosophy of mind.
Author : Henrik Brumm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364241494X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Animal Communication and Noise written by Henrik Brumm and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Donald H. Owings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521324687
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Animal Vocal Communication written by Donald H. Owings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 : Jack P. Hailman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674027954
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Coding and Redundancy written by Jack P. Hailman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the strikingly similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights and tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns and vocalizations). The book also considers some coding principles for reducing certain unwanted redundancies and explains how desirable redundancies enhance communication reliability. Jack Hailman believes this work pioneers several aspects of analyzing human and animal communication. The book is the first to survey man-made signals as a class. It is also the first to compare such human-devised systems with signaling in animals by showing the highly similar ways in which the two encode information. A third innovation is generalizing principles of quantitative information theory to apply to a broad range of signaling systems. Finally, another first is distinguishing among types of redundancy and their separation into unwanted and desirable categories. This remarkably novel book will be of interest to a wide readership. Appealing not only to specialists in semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields but also to general readers, it serves as an introduction to animal signaling and to an important class of human communication.
Author : William A. Searcy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400835720
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Animal Communication written by William A. Searcy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are these--and other animals--sometimes dishonest? That's what William Searcy and Stephen Nowicki ask in The Evolution of Animal Communication. They take on the fascinating yet perplexing question of the dependability of animal signaling systems. The book probes such phenomena as the begging of nesting birds, alarm calls in squirrels and primates, carotenoid coloration in fish and birds, the calls of frogs and toads, and weapon displays in crustaceans. Do these signals convey accurate information about the signaler, its future behavior, or its environment? Or do they mislead receivers in a way that benefits the signaler? For example, is the begging chick really hungry as its cries indicate or is it lobbying to get more food than its brothers and sisters? Searcy and Nowicki take on these and other questions by developing clear definitions of key issues, by reviewing the most relevant empirical data and game theory models available, and by asking how well theory matches data. They find that animal communication is largely reliable--but that this basic reliability also allows the clever deceiver to flourish. Well researched and clearly written, their book provides new insight into animal communication, behavior, and evolution.
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Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Approaches to Animal Communication written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
