Biocommunication of animals [electronic resource] / edited by Guenther Witzany.
Witzany, Günther, editor of compilation. author.
2014
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Title Biocommunication of animals [electronic resource] / edited by Guenther Witzany.
ISBN 9789400774148 electronic book
9400774141 electronic book
9789400774131
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7414-8
Published Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 420 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-94-007-7414-8 doi
Call Number QL776
Dewey Decimal Classification 591.59
Summary Every coordination within or between animals depends on communication processes. Although the signaling molecules, vocal and tactile signs, gestures and its combinations differ throughout all species according their evolutionary origins and variety of adaptation processes, certain levels of biocommunication can be found in all animal species: (a) Abiotic environmental indices such as temperature, light, water, etc. that affect the local ecosphere of an organism and are sensed, interpreted (against stored background memory) and then being used for organisation of response behavior to adapt accordingly (concerning optimal energy cost). (b) Transspecific communication with non-related organisms as found in attac, defense and symbiotic (even endosymbiotic) sign-mediated interactions. (c) Species-specific communication between same or related species. (d) Intraorganismic communication, i.e., sign-mediated coordination within the body of the organism. This means two sublevels, such as cell-cell communication as well as intracellular signaling between cellular parts. In any case, the context of a given situation determines the meaning of the used signs: (a) growth and (b) development are different modes of behaviour and need other patterns of signaling than (c) defence or (d) reproductive patterns. Likewise, (e) mutualistic symbioses require different forms of coordination from those of (f) commensalism or (e) parasitism. Thus, this systematic approach of animal communication demonstrates that the meaning (semantics) of signs is context-dependent, and helps to give a better understanding of the full range of sign-mediated interactions of coral life. This book gives an overview of the manifold levels of animal communication exemplified by a variety of species and thereby broadens the understanding of these organisms.
Note Includes index.
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1. Why biocommunication of animals? / Guenther Witzany
2. Signs of communication in chimpanzees / Mary Lee A. Jensvold, Lisa Wilding, Savannah H. Schulze
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, Simon Townsend, Friederike Range
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 / Guenther 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, Richard C. Vogt, Jacqueline C. Giles, Gerald Kuchling
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, Piero Amodio, Giovanna Ponte, Graziano Fiorito
20. How corals coordinate and organize : an ecosystemic analysis based on biocommunication and fractal properties / Pierre Madl, Guenther Witzany
21. Nematode communication / Yen-Ping Hsueh, Daniel H.W. Leighton, Paul W. Sternberg.

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