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Studying animal languages without translation : an insight from ants / Zhanna Reznikova.

Reznikova, Zh. I. (Zhanna Ilʹinichna), author.
2017
QL776
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Title
Studying animal languages without translation : an insight from ants / Zhanna Reznikova.
Author
Reznikova, Zh. I. (Zhanna Ilʹinichna), author.
ISBN
9783319449180 (electronic book)
3319449184 (electronic book)
9783319449166
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Language
English
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QL776
Dewey Decimal Classification
591.59
Summary
The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals. To do so, she pursues a fundamentally new approach to studying animal communication and ℓ́ℓlinguisticℓ́ℓ capacities on the basis of measuring the rate of information transmission and the complexity of transmitted messages. Animalsℓ́ℓ communication systems and cognitive abilities have long-since been a topic of particular interest to biologists, psychologists, linguists, and many others, including researchers in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. The main difficulties in the analysis of animal language have to date been predominantly methodological in nature. Addressing this perennial problem, the elaborated experimental paradigm presented here has been applied to ants, and can be extended to other social species of animals that have the need to memorize and relay complex ℓ́ℓmessagesℓ́ℓ. Accordingly, the method opens exciting new dimensions in the study of natural communications in the wild.
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