Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 657 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511610363
Content:
Most animal communication has evolved and now takes place in the context of a communication network, i.e. several signallers and receivers within communication range of each other. This idea follows naturally from the observation that many signals travel further than the average spacing between animals. This is self evidently true for long-range signals, but at a high density the same is true for short-range signals (e.g. begging calls of nestling birds). This book provides a current summary of research on communication networks and appraises future prospects. It combines information from studies of several taxonomic groups (insects to people via fiddler crabs, fish, frogs, birds and mammals) and several signalling modalities (visual, acoustic and chemical signals). It also specifically addresses the many areas of interface between communication networks and other disciplines (from the evolution of human charitable behaviour to the psychophysics of signal perception, via social behaviour, physiology and mathematical models)
Content:
Eavesdropping in communication networks / Tom M. Peake -- Public, private or anonymous? Facilitating and countering eavesdropping / Torben Dabelsteen -- Performing in front of an audience: signallers and the social environment / Ricardo J. Matos & Ingo Schlupp -- Fighting, mating and networking: pillars of poeciliid sociality / Ryan L. Earley & Lee Alan Dugatkin -- The occurrence and function of victory displays within communication networks / John L. Bower -- Enlightened decisions: female assessment and communication networks / Ken A. Otter & Laurene Ratcliffe -- Predation and noise in communication networks of neotropical katydids / Alexander B. Lang, Ingeborg Teppner, Manfred Hartbauer & Heiner Römer -- Nestling begging as a communication network / Andrew G. Horn & Marty Leonard -- Redirection of aggression: multiparty signalling in a network? / Anahita J.N. Kazem & Filippo Aureli -- Scent marking and social communication / Jane L. Hurst -- Waving in a crowd: fiddler crabs signal in networks / Denise S. Pope -- Anuran choruses as communication networks / T. Ulmar Grafe -- Singing interactions in songbirds: implications for social relations and territorial settlement / Marc Naguib -- Dawn chorus as an interactive communication network / John M. Burt & Sandra L. Vehrencamp -- Eavesdropping and scent over-marking / Robert E. Johnston -- Vocal communication networks in large terrestrial mammals / Karen E. McComb & David Reby -- Underwater acoustic communication networks in marine mammals / Vincent M. Janik -- Looking for, looking at: social control, honest signals and intimate experience in human evolution and history / John L. Locke -- Perception and acoustic communication networks / Ulrike Langemann & Georg M. Klump -- Hormones, social context and animal communication / Rui F. Oliveira -- Cooperation in communication networks: indirect reciprocity in interactions between cleaner fish and client reef fish / Reduoan Bshary and Arun D'Souza -- Fish semiochemicals and the evolution of communication networks / Brian D. Wisenden & Norman E. Stacey -- Cognitive aspects of networks and avian capacities / Irene M. Pepperberg -- Social complexity and the information acquired during eavesdropping by primates and other animals / Dorothy L. Cheney & Robert M. Seyfarth -- Communication networks in a virtual world / Andrew M.R. Terry and Robert Lachlan
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521823616
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521530484
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521823616
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511610363
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