Animal Vocal Communication

Klappentext Exploring a new way to conceptualize animal vocal communication, this book moves beyond an earlier emphasis on senders' management of receiver behaviour, to emphasise how receivers' responses influence signalling. It offers important insights for researchers and students of animal behaviour, sensory biology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology. Zusammenfassung Exploring a new way to conceptualize animal vocal communication! this book moves beyond an earlier emphasis on senders' management of receiver behaviour! to emphasise how receivers' responses influence signalling. It offers important insights for researchers and students of animal behaviour! sensory biology! neuroscience and evolutionary biology.

Auteur

Eugene S. Morton is a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC and an Adjunct Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto. He specializes in migratory bird behavioural ecology, mating systems in birds and saturniid moths, animal communication and avian/plant coevolution. He received the William Brewster Award from the American Ornithologists' Union in 1995 for his ornithological research.

Texte du rabat

This volume presents a new approach to conceptualizing animal vocal communication, with an emphasis on how receivers' responses influence signalling.

Contenu

Preface; Introduction; 1. The informationizing of communication; 2. The roles of assessment and management in communication; 3. Form and function in vocal communication; 4. Mechanisms and proximate processes of vocal communication; 5. Assessment/management: a viable replacement for the metaphor of transmitted information; References; Index.