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Author:   Guenther Witzany
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   6.555kg
ISBN:  

9789402406672

ISBN 10:   9402406670
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   18 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Preface; Günther Witzany.- 1. Why Biocommunication of Animals?; Günther Witzany.- 2. Signs of Communication in Chimpanzees; Mary Lee A. Jensvold et al.- 3. African and Asian elephant vocal communication: A cross-species comparison; Angela Stoeger, Shermin de Silva.- 4. The information content of wolf (and dog) social communication; Tamás Faragó et al.- 5. Social origin of vocal communication in rodents; Stefan M. Brudzynski.- 6. Why the caged mouse sings: Studies of the mouse ultrasonic song system and vocal behavior; Gustavo Arriaga.- 7. Vibrational Communication: Spiders to Kangaroo Rats; Jan A. Randall.- 8. Communicative Coordination in Bees; Günther Witzany.- 9. Social association brings out the altruism in an ant; Kenji Hara.- 10. Termite communication during different behavioral activities; Ana Maria Costa-Leonardo, Ives Haifig.- 11. Crows and Crow Feeders: Observations on Interspecific Semiotics; John M. Marzluff, Marc L. Miller.- 12. Interspecies communication with Grey Parrots: A tool for examining cognitive processing; Irene M. Pepperberg.- 13. Singing in space and time: the biology of birdsong; Marc Naguib, Katharina Riebel.- 14. Chemical persuasion in salamanders; Lynne Houck.- 15. Chelonian vocal Communication; Camila R. Ferrara et al.- 16. Cetacean Acoustic Communication; Laela S. Sayigh.- 17. Communication in the ultraviolet: unravelling the secret language of fish; Ulrike E. Siebeck.- 18. Young squeaker catfish can already talk and listen to their conspecifics; Walter Lechner.- 19. Cognition and recognition in the cephalopod mollusc Octopus vulgaris: coordinating interaction with environment and conspecifics; Elena Tricarico et al.- 20. How Corals coordinate and organize: an ecosystemic analysis based fractal properties; Pierre Madl, Günther Witzany.- 21. Nematode Communication; Yen-Ping Hsueh et al.- Index.

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