| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication ; Table of contents; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; The Túngara Frog ; The Carolina Wren ; The Hooded Warbler ; The California Ground Squirrel and the Rattlesnake ; Anna and her Mother ; 1 The Informationizing of Communication. |
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1.1 An Evolutionary Approach: Ultimate Questions 1.1.1 Natural Selection and the Functions of Behavior ; 1.1.2 Sexual Selection ; 1.1.3 Evolutionary History of Signals ; 1.1.4 Ethology ; 1.1.5 Self-Interest: The Logic of Natural Selection ; 1.1.6 Selfish Perceivers. |
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1.1.7 Assessment/Management: Combining Selfish Receivers and Signalers 1.2 An Evolutionary Approach: Proximate Questions ; 1.2.1 Immediate Causation: Early Ethological Concepts ; 1.2.2 The Importance of Variation in Signal Structure: Karl von Frisch. |
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1.2.5 Resistance to Informational Thinking in the Study of Animal Communication 1.2.6 Deception ; 1.2.7 Ontogeny ; 1.2.8 Exceptions to Lorenz's Conclusions: The Role of Social Companions in Development of the Structure of Vocalizations (Syntactic Level). |
| Summary |
This volume presents a new approach to conceptualizing animal vocal communication, with an emphasis on how receivers' responses influence signalling. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Animal communication.
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Animal communication. |
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Sound production by animals.
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Sound production by animals. |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781108135054 (electronic book) |
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1108135056 (electronic book) |
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9781107052253 |
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