Overview
- First systematic investigation on animal communication
- A broad variety of examples of rather different species
- Trans-disciplinary concept
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
(b) Trans-specific communication with non-related organisms.
(c) Species-specific communication between same or related species.
(d) Intraorganismic communication, i.e., sign-mediated coordination within the body of the organism.
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biocommunication of Animals
Editors: Guenther Witzany
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7414-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7413-1Published: 18 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0667-2Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7414-8Published: 08 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 420
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Community & Population Ecology, Sociolinguistics, Animal Physiology, Animal Biochemistry, Behavioral Sciences, Philosophy of Biology