Animal Communication Networks

by P. K. McGregor

Overview

Summarizing research progress and prospects in the rapidly expanding area of animal communication networks, this book differs from other works on animal communication because it covers several animal groups and types of signal. It also highlights research at the interface with other disciplines (for example, psychology and physiology) and is intended for researchers in the field, advanced students and high-level undergraduates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521823616
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/31/2005
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	7.09(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Professor McGregor is Head of the Department of Animal Behaviour at Copenhagen University. He is editor of the journal Bioacoustics and on the editorial board of several other academic journals.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Peter K. McGregor; Part I. Behaviours Specific to Communication Networks: 2. Eavesdropping in communication networks Tom M. Peake; 3. Public, private or anonymous? Facilitating and countering eavesdropping Torben Dabelsteen; 4. Performing in front of an audience - signallers and the social environment Ricardo J. Matos and Ingo Schlupp; 5. Fighting, mating and networking: pillars of poeciliid sociality Ryan L. Earley and Lee Alan Dugatkin; 6. The occurrence and function of victory displays within communication networks John L. Bower; Part II. The Effects of Particular Contexts: 7. Enlightened decisions: female assessment and communication networks Ken A. Otter and Laurene Ratcliffe; 8. Predation and noise in communication networks of neotropical katydids Alexander Lang, Ingeborg Teppner, Manfred Hartbauer and Heiner Römer; 9. Nestling begging as a communication network Andrew G. Horn and Marty Leonard; 10. Redirection of aggression: multiparty signalling in a network? Anahita J. N. Kazem and Filippo Aureli; 11. Scent marking and social communication Jane L. Hurst; Part III. Communication Networks in Different Taxa: 12. Waving in a crowd: fiddler crabs signal in networks Denise S. Pope; 13. Anuran choruses as communication networks T. Ulmar Grafe; 14. Singing interactions in songbirds: implications for social relations and territorial settlement Marc Naguib; 15. Dawn chorus as an interactive communication network John M. Burt and Sandra L. Vehrencamp; 16. Eavesdropping and scent over-marking Robert E. Johnston; 17. Vocal communication networks in large terrestrial mammals Karen E. McComb and David Reby; 18. Underwater acoustic communication networks in marine mammals Vincent Janik; 19. Looking for, looking at: social control, honest signals, and intimate experience in human evolution and history John Locke; Part IV. Interfaces with Other Disciplines: 20. Perception and acoustic communication networks Ulrike Langemann and Georg M. Klump; 21. Hormones, social context and animal communication Rui F. Oliveira; 22. Cooperation in communication networks: indirect reciprocity in interactions between cleaner fish and client reef fish Reduoan Bshary and Arun D'Souza; 23. Fish semiochemicals and the evolution of communication networks Brian D. Wisenden and Norman E Stacey; 24. Cognitive aspects of networks and avian capacities Irene M. Pepperberg; 25. Social complexity and the information acquired during eavesdropping by primates and other animals Dorothy Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth; 26. Communication networks in a virtual world Andrew M. R. Terry and Robert Lachlan.

Editorial Reviews

"This book is designed to be intelligible to a wide academic audience looking for an authoritative introduction to the field of animal communication networks.... I have used it in a graduate course and have found that most chapters provide an excellent foundation for discussions in class."
Gayathri Sreedharan, Ecoscience

"I found this book exciting, thought-provoking, and an important contribution. Every chapter was strong.... I urge all communication researchers to read this book. It is clear and accessible, allowing readers to see how this perspective might or might not apply to behaviors both seemingly already understood and currently mysterious."
Penny L. Bernstein, BioScience

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