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Eugene S. Morton - Animal Vocal Communication: Assessment and Management Roles - 9781107052253 - V9781107052253
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Animal Vocal Communication: Assessment and Management Roles

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Description for Animal Vocal Communication: Assessment and Management Roles hardcover. This volume presents a new approach to conceptualizing animal vocal communication, with an emphasis on how receivers' responses influence signalling. Num Pages: 256 pages, 49 b/w illus. 5 tables. BIC Classification: PSVP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
How do animals communicate using sounds? How did animal vocal communication arise and evolve? Exploring a new way to conceptualize animal communication, this new edition moves beyond an earlier emphasis on the role of senders in managing receiver behaviour, to examine how receivers' responses influence signalling. It demonstrates the importance of the perceiver role in driving the evolution of communication, for instance in mimicry, and thus shifts the emphasis from a linguistic to a form/function approach to communication. Covering a wide range of animals from frogs to humans, this new edition includes new sections on human prosodic elements in speech, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107052253
SKU
V9781107052253
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-16

About Eugene S. Morton
Eugene S. Morton is a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC and an Adjunct Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto. He specializes in migratory bird behavioural ecology, mating systems in birds and saturniid moths, animal communication and avian/plant coevolution. He received the William Brewster Award from the American Ornithologists' Union in 1995 for his ornithological research.

Reviews for Animal Vocal Communication: Assessment and Management Roles
'[Morton] presents a serious discussion of how we should view the evolution and function of animal vocal communication. For anyone interested in this most compelling of all animal behaviors, this book is well worth the time and effort.' Michael Ryan, The Quarterly Review of Biology

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