Author: Ronald J. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Behavioural biology of the collared lemming (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus (Traill)) : an analysis of acoustic communication
Author: Ronald J. BrooksBehavioural Biology of the Collared Lemming
Author: Ronald J. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal communication
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Behavioural Biology of the Collared Lemming [Dicrostonyx Groenlandicus (Trail)]
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Author: Ronald J. BrooksEcology and Acoustic Behavior of the Collared Lemming, Dicrostonyx Groenlandicus (Traill)
Author: Ronald J. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collared lemming
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Acoustic Communication Analysis for Understanding Animal Behavior
Author: Sara Anna BoniniPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889769461
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Behavior of Communicating
Author: William John. SmithPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043790
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
In this book, W. John Smith enlarges ethology's perspective on communication and takes it in new directions. Traditionally, ethological analysis has focused on the motivational states of displaying animals: What makes the bird sing, the cat lash its tail, the bee dance? The Behavior of Communicating emphasizes messages. It seeks to answer questions about the information shared by animals through their displays: What information is made available to a bird by its neighbor's song, to a cat by its opponent's gesture, to a bee by its hivemate's dancing? What information is extracted from sources contextual to these displays? How are the responses to displays adaptive for recipients and senders? What evolutionary processes and constraints underlie observed patterns of animal communication? Smith's approach is deeply rooted in the ethological tradition of naturalistic observations. Detailed analysis of observed displays and display repertoires illuminates the theoretical discussion that forms the core of the book. A taxonomy and interpretative analysis of messages made available through formalized display behavior are also developed. Smith shows that virtually all subhuman animal displays may be interpreted as transmitting messages about the communicator--not the environment--and, more specifically, that messages indicate the kinds of behavior the displaying animal may choose to perform. The most widespread behavioral messages are surprisingly general, even banal, in character; yet they make public information that is not readily available from other sources and that would otherwise be essentially private to the communicator. Taken along with information from sources contextual to the displays, the messages made available may permit responses that are markedly specific. By taking advantage of contextual specificity, a species expands the capacity of its display behavior to be functional in numerous and diverse circumstances. After developing the concept of messages and discussing their forms, the responses made to them, and the functions engendered, Smith turns to the evolution of display behavior--the ways in which acts become specialized for communication and the nature of the evolutionary constraints affecting the ultimate forms of displays. He revises the traditional ethological concept of displays, and in a final chapter develops the further concept of formalized interactions. Here he extends the discussion to formal patterns of behavior that, unlike displays, are beyond the capabilities of individual performers. Human nonverbal communication, which is considered from time to time throughout the book, provides the richest examples of communication flexibly structured at this level of complexity.
Biology of Marine Mammals
Author: Communication
Author: Donald H. OwingsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489917454
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
ON THE FUTURE OF PERSPECTIVES When Patrick Bateson and Peter Klopfer offered me the editorship of Perspectives in 1992, the world of academic publishing was in one of its periodic upheavals. Subscriptions to series-even distinguished series such as Perspec tives-had been declining and individual volume prices had been rising, a trend that if continued could only result in the series pricing itself out of the market. In the course of the negotiations around the change of editors, the publishers offered a cost-cutting solution: change the production pattern to "camera ready" and elimi nate the costs of indexing and proofreading. While I could see the sense in this proposal, I was reluctant to accept it. Part of what I had always liked about the volumes in this series was that they were real books, intelligently proofread, nicely laid out, and provided with proper indexes. Thus, I in return offered a "Devil's bargain": the publisher should maintain the present quality of the series for two more volumes and make a renewed effort to advertise the series to our ethological and sociobiological colleagues, while I as the new series editor committed myself to a renewed effort to make Perspectives the publication of choice for writers who are trying to get their message out to the world intact and readers who are seeking clear, coherent, comprehensive and untrammeled presentations of authors' ideas and research programs.
An Analysis of Acoustic Communication in the Chinchilla
Author: Susan Carol VogtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinchillas
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Advances in the Study of Behavior
Author: Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080582664
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Advances in the Study of Behavior