Vibrational communication in animals
In creatures as different as crickets and scorpions, mole rats and elephants, there exists an overlooked channel of communication: signals transmitted as vibrations through a solid substrate. Peggy Hill summarizes a generation of groundbreaking work by scientists around the world on this long unders...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2008.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- ONE Vibration as a Channel for Information Transfer
- TWO Communication and the Medium
- THREE Receiving Signals
- FOUR Sending Signals
- FIVE Predator-Prey Interaction
- SIX Mating
- SEVEN Group Information Transfer
- EIGHT Why Vibration?
- References
- Species Index
- Subject Index