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Animal vocal communication : assessment and management roles /
This volume presents a new approach to conceptualizing animal vocal communication, with an emphasis on how receivers' responses influence signalling.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).