The Voices of Nature : : How and Why Animals Communicate /

The Voices of Nature : : How and Why Animals Communicate / / Nicolas Mathevon.

Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by soundWhat is the meaning of a bird’s song, a baboon’s bark, an owl’s hoot, or a dolphin’s clicks? In The Voices of Nature, Nicolas Mathevon explores the mysteries of animal sound. Putting readers i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
VerfasserIn:
Mathevon, Nicolas,
MitwirkendeR:
Krause, Bernard L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 32 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Note to the reader
  • 1. Animal chatters: Tinbergen’s four questions
  • 2. Making circles in water: A short vade mecum of physical acoustics
  • 3. The warbler’s eyebrows: Why do birds sing?
  • 4. Cocktails between birds
  • 5. Family dinner
  • 6. Submarine ears
  • 7. The tango of the elephant seals
  • 8. The caiman’s tears
  • 9. Hear, at all costs
  • 10. Tell me what you look like
  • 11. Networking addiction
  • 12. Learning to talk
  • 13. Inaudible speech
  • 14. The laughing hyena
  • 15. Ancestral fears
  • 16. The booby’s foot
  • 17. Listening to the living
  • 18. Words ... words
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Index

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