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Stretching the Paradigm or Building a New? Development of a Cohesive Language for Vibrational Communication

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Studying Vibrational Communication

Part of the book series: Animal Signals and Communication ((ANISIGCOM,volume 3))

Abstract

Before we can recruit the broader community to share our conviction of substrate-borne communication in animals as ancient, important, widely employed in vertebrates, and perhaps exclusively employed in a broad range of arthropod taxa, we first must assess our current status within the animal communication paradigm and plot a course with that focused goal in sight. We must agree on the words we use to unambiguously communicate research findings among ourselves. We can do this rapidly through consensus, or allow terminology and protocols to slowly evolve to cohesion over an extended period of time through inaction. This chapter briefly explores the current position of shared core concepts on vibrational communication within the framework of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions and suggests that the study of substrate-borne vibrational communication really can be accommodated within the dominant paradigm of animal communication. We require a reinterpretation of what ‘everyone knows to be true’ in some cases where empirical studies now have falsified previous widely held assumptions. A first step might be to develop a concerted, coordinated strategy that is widely employed by those currently studying vibrational communication. The paradigm can be stretched without being replaced, or we can forge a separate paradigm for vibrational communication. It is simply time to collectively decide on a course of action.

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I thank Hannelore Hoch and Andreas Wessel for the invitation to speak at the Entomologentagung of the Deutschen Gesellschaft fűr allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie (DGaaE) in 2011 and support to travel to Berlin. I also thank Rex Cocroft, Matija Gogala, and Andreas for inviting me to contribute a chapter and to serve as co-editor of this volume. As always, I thank John Shadley for guiding my first forays into the study of vibrational communication and for his teaching, mentorship, and friendship over the years.

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    Peggy S.M. Hill

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Hill, P.S.M. (2014). Stretching the Paradigm or Building a New? Development of a Cohesive Language for Vibrational Communication. In: Cocroft, R., Gogala, M., Hill, P., Wessel, A. (eds) Studying Vibrational Communication. Animal Signals and Communication, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43607-3_2

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