Describes how animals transmit messages by sight and sound, and discusses how they communicate family relationships, status, and danger, or avoid communicating when necessary.
Based on the approach laid out in the 1950s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen, this book looks at animal communication from the four perspectives of mechanisms, ontogeny, function, and phylogeny.
This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspectives, an effort that brings a discipline too long defined by that fallacy of division, human or nonhuman, ...
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).
Animal Talk teaches you how to open the door to your animal friends’ hearts and minds without resorting to magic tricks or wishful thinking.
Presents a seven-step program to help communicate with animals, develop a deeper connection with pets, and find solutions to behavioral problems.
"Animals don't talk to each other in the same way that people do.
There is also evidence of micro-habitat choice by cachers (Pearson and Theimer 2004). Since micro- habitat choice and depth of burial will have strong influences on the ability of cached but unretrieved seeds to germinate and flourish, ...
A valuable overview and analysis of foundational concepts in animal behaviour studies, including information, meaning, communication, signals and cues.
Do some of their behaviours leave you baffled? In this book, world-renowned animal communicator Pea Horsley teaches you the essentials of animal communication to enable you to communicate intuitively with the animals you love.
This volume promotes the integration of the knowledge gained by the diverse approaches to the study of animal communication and, at the same time, highlights particularly interesting fields of current and future research.