Studying Animal Languages Without Translation An Insight From Ants

Author : Zhanna Reznikova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319449184
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants written by Zhanna Reznikova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals. To do so, she pursues a fundamentally new approach to studying animal communication and “linguistic” capacities on the basis of measuring the rate of information transmission and the complexity of transmitted messages. Animals’ communication systems and cognitive abilities have long-since been a topic of particular interest to biologists, psychologists, linguists, and many others, including researchers in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. The main difficulties in the analysis of animal language have to date been predominantly methodological in nature. Addressing this perennial problem, the elaborated experimental paradigm presented here has been applied to ants, and can be extended to other social species of animals that have the need to memorize and relay complex “messages”. Accordingly, the method opens exciting new dimensions in the study of natural communications in the wild.

Author : Nereida Bueno-Guerra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108355897
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition written by Nereida Bueno-Guerra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you ask a honeybee to point at a screen and recognise a facial expression? Or ask an elephant to climb a tree? While humans and non-human species may inhabit the same world, it's likely that our perceptual worlds differ significantly. Emphasising Uexküll's concept of 'umwelt', this volume offers practical advice on how animal cognition can be successfully tested while avoiding anthropomorphic conclusions. The chapters describe the capabilities of a range of animals - from ants, to lizards to chimpanzees - revealing how to successfully investigate animal cognition across a variety of taxa. The book features contributions from leading cognition researchers, each offering a series of examples and practical tips drawn from their own experience. Together, the authors synthesise information on current field and laboratory methods, providing researchers and graduate students with methodological advice on how to formulate research questions, design experiments and adapt studies to different taxa.

Author : Nicolas Chaline
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889665771
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Context-Dependent Plasticity in Social Species: Feedback Loops Between Individual and Social Environment written by Nicolas Chaline and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guest Editors would like to acknowledge and thank Veridiana Jardim (USP, Brazil) for her contribution to the elaboration of this Research Topic in relation with her doctorate studies.

Author : Daniel C. Remein
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526136449
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dating Beowulf written by Daniel C. Remein and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Featuring essays from some of the most prominent voices in early medieval studies, Dating Beowulf playfully redeploys the word ‘dating’, which usually heralds some of the most divisive critical impasses in the field, to provocatively phrase a set of new relationships with an Old English poem. The volume argues for the relevance of the early Middle Ages to affect studies and vice-versa, offering a riposte to antifeminist discourse and opening avenues for future work by specialists in the history of emotions, literary theorists, students of Old English literature and medieval scholars alike. To this end, the essays embody a range of critical approaches from queer theory to animal studies and ecocriticism to actor-network theory.

Author : Michael Colombo
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889665976
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comparative Psychology of Intelligence: Macphail Revisited written by Michael Colombo and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fernand Méry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Animal Languages written by Fernand Méry and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1479554782
Total Pages : 25 pages
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Download or read book Do Ants Get Lost? written by Thomas Kingsley Troupe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Humorous text and characters teach kids all about scent marking and animal communication"--

Author : C. N. Slobodchikoff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031261179X
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Chasing Doctor Dolittle written by C. N. Slobodchikoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how animals are capable of interacting intelligently through vocal and physical methods, drawing on work with prairie dogs to present evidence of animal communication methods and how they can be imitated by human researchers.

Author : Pamela Paterson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781479174416
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Ant Communication written by Pamela Paterson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike ants themselves, ant communication is no small matter. Ants have an extensive communication system and communicate with each other on every level of their society—to find food, mate, raise their young, identify and exclude foreigners, establish and defend territories, determine caste, and steal larvae from other colonies to raise as slaves. This book provides an in-depth look into the fascinating world of ant communication. BONUS: Both the scientific and general interest versions of the book are included.Dr. Paul Mazzocchi calls The Science of Ant Communication a "beautiful essay on ant pheromones. It is well worth reading as an example of the complexity of the animal world and the interdependence of behavior and chemistry, the world of chemical ecology."

Author : Eric Wasmann
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020876363
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Comparative Studies in The Psyhology of Ants and of Higher Animals written by Eric Wasmann and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of animal behavior and psychology, from the acclaimed naturalist Eric Wasmann. In Comparative Studies in the Psychology of Ants and of Higher Animals, Wasmann explores the complexities of animal behavior, drawing fascinating parallels between the behavior of ants and that of higher animals, including humans. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the natural world and the fascinating science of animal behavior. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.