Author: Damian Octavio Elias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Seismic Communication in Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)
Author: Damian Octavio Elias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Biocommunication of Animals
Author: Guenther Witzany
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400774141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400774141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
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.
Advances in the Study of Behavior
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128051795
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. This volume makes another important contribution to the development of the field by presenting theoretical ideas and research findings to professionals studying animal behavior and related fields. - Initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior - Makes another important contribution to the development of the field - Presents theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and related fields
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128051795
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. This volume makes another important contribution to the development of the field by presenting theoretical ideas and research findings to professionals studying animal behavior and related fields. - Initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior - Makes another important contribution to the development of the field - Presents theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and related fields
Vibrational Communication in Animals
Author: Peggy S. M. Hill
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674027985
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In creatures as different as crickets and scorpions, mole rats and elephants, there exists an overlooked channel of communication: signals transmitted as vibrations through a solid substrate. Peggy Hill summarizes a generation of groundbreaking work by scientists around the world on this long understudied form of animal communication. Beginning in the 1970s, Hill explains, powerful computers and listening devices allowed scientists to record and interpret vibrational signals. Whether the medium is the sunbaked savannah or the stem of a plant, vibrations can be passed along from an animal to a potential mate, or intercepted by a predator on the prowl. Vibration appears to be an ancient means of communication, widespread in both invertebrate and vertebrate taxa. Hill synthesizes in this book a flowering of research, field studies documenting vibrational signals in the wild, and the laboratory experiments that answered such questions as what adaptations allowed animals to send and receive signals, how they use signals in different contexts, and how vibration as a channel might have evolved. Vibrational Communication in Animals promises to become a foundational text for the next generation of researchers putting an ear to the ground.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674027985
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In creatures as different as crickets and scorpions, mole rats and elephants, there exists an overlooked channel of communication: signals transmitted as vibrations through a solid substrate. Peggy Hill summarizes a generation of groundbreaking work by scientists around the world on this long understudied form of animal communication. Beginning in the 1970s, Hill explains, powerful computers and listening devices allowed scientists to record and interpret vibrational signals. Whether the medium is the sunbaked savannah or the stem of a plant, vibrations can be passed along from an animal to a potential mate, or intercepted by a predator on the prowl. Vibration appears to be an ancient means of communication, widespread in both invertebrate and vertebrate taxa. Hill synthesizes in this book a flowering of research, field studies documenting vibrational signals in the wild, and the laboratory experiments that answered such questions as what adaptations allowed animals to send and receive signals, how they use signals in different contexts, and how vibration as a channel might have evolved. Vibrational Communication in Animals promises to become a foundational text for the next generation of researchers putting an ear to the ground.
Spider Behaviour
Author: Marie Elisabeth Herberstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139494783
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Spiders are often underestimated as suitable behavioural models because of the general belief that due to their small brains their behaviour is innate and mostly invariable. Challenging this assumption, this fascinating book shows that rather than having a limited behavioural repertoire, spiders show surprising cognitive abilities, changing their behaviour to suit their situational needs. The team of authors unravels the considerable intra-specific as well as intra-individual variability and plasticity in different behaviours ranging from foraging and web building to communication and courtship. An introductory chapter on spider biology, systematics and evolution provides the reader with the necessary background information to understand the discussed behaviours and helps to place them into an evolutionary context. Highlighting an under-explored area of behaviour, this book will provide new ideas for behavioural researchers and students unfamiliar with spiders as well as a valuable resource for those already working in this intriguing field.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139494783
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Spiders are often underestimated as suitable behavioural models because of the general belief that due to their small brains their behaviour is innate and mostly invariable. Challenging this assumption, this fascinating book shows that rather than having a limited behavioural repertoire, spiders show surprising cognitive abilities, changing their behaviour to suit their situational needs. The team of authors unravels the considerable intra-specific as well as intra-individual variability and plasticity in different behaviours ranging from foraging and web building to communication and courtship. An introductory chapter on spider biology, systematics and evolution provides the reader with the necessary background information to understand the discussed behaviours and helps to place them into an evolutionary context. Highlighting an under-explored area of behaviour, this book will provide new ideas for behavioural researchers and students unfamiliar with spiders as well as a valuable resource for those already working in this intriguing field.
Signals in motion
Author: Eunice Jingmei Tan
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 283251832X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 283251832X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Spider Physiology and Behaviour
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0124159427
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This latest volume in this series contains articles on Arachnid Physiology and Behaviour.The papers in this special issue give rise to key themes for the future. - Contributions from the leading researchers in entomology - Discusses arachnid physiology and behavior - Includes in-depth reviews with valuable information for a variety of entomology disciplines
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0124159427
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This latest volume in this series contains articles on Arachnid Physiology and Behaviour.The papers in this special issue give rise to key themes for the future. - Contributions from the leading researchers in entomology - Discusses arachnid physiology and behavior - Includes in-depth reviews with valuable information for a variety of entomology disciplines
Journal of Experimental Biology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Soundscape Ecology
Author: Almo Farina
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400773749
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Soundscape Ecology represents a new branch of ecology and it is the result of the integration of different disciplines like Landscape ecology, Bioacoustics, Acoustic ecology, Biosemiotics, etc. The soundscape that is the object of this discipline, is defined as the acoustic context resulting from natural and human originated sounds and it is considered a relevant environmental proxy for animal and human life. With Soundscape Ecology Almo Farina means to offer a new cultural tool to investigate a partially explored component of the environmental complexity. For this he intends to set the principles of this new discipline, to delineate the epistemic domain in which to develop new ideas and theories and to describe the necessary integration with all the other ecological/environmental disciplines. The book is organized in ten chapters. The first two chapters delineate principles and theory of soundscape ecology. Chapters three and four describe the bioacoustic and communication theories. Chapter five is devoted to the human dimension of soundscape. Chapters six to eight regard the major sonic patterns like noise, choruses and vibrations. Chapter nine is devoted to the methods in soundscape ecology and finally chapter ten describes the application of the soundscape analysis.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400773749
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Soundscape Ecology represents a new branch of ecology and it is the result of the integration of different disciplines like Landscape ecology, Bioacoustics, Acoustic ecology, Biosemiotics, etc. The soundscape that is the object of this discipline, is defined as the acoustic context resulting from natural and human originated sounds and it is considered a relevant environmental proxy for animal and human life. With Soundscape Ecology Almo Farina means to offer a new cultural tool to investigate a partially explored component of the environmental complexity. For this he intends to set the principles of this new discipline, to delineate the epistemic domain in which to develop new ideas and theories and to describe the necessary integration with all the other ecological/environmental disciplines. The book is organized in ten chapters. The first two chapters delineate principles and theory of soundscape ecology. Chapters three and four describe the bioacoustic and communication theories. Chapter five is devoted to the human dimension of soundscape. Chapters six to eight regard the major sonic patterns like noise, choruses and vibrations. Chapter nine is devoted to the methods in soundscape ecology and finally chapter ten describes the application of the soundscape analysis.
Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition
Author: Nereida Bueno-Guerra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842032X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Leading researchers present current methodological approaches and future directions for a less anthropocentric study of animal cognition.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842032X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Leading researchers present current methodological approaches and future directions for a less anthropocentric study of animal cognition.