Animal Vocal Communication: Assessment and Management Roles

Eugene S. Morton

doi:10.1017/9781107280519

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, the vocal origins of smiles and laughter and deliberately irritating sounds and is ideal for researchers and students of animal behaviour and in fields such as sensory biology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology.

'[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 Source: The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Animal Vocal CommunicationAssessment and Management RolesSecond Edition
pp i-ii

Animal Vocal Communication - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-9

1 - The Informationizing of Communication
pp 10-39

2 - The Roles of Assessment and Management in Communication
pp 40-83

3 - Form and Function in Vocal Communication
pp 84-137

4 - Mechanisms and Proximate Processes of Vocal Communication
pp 138-189

5 - Assessment/Management: A Viable Replacement for the Metaphor of Transmitted Information
pp 190-211

References
pp 212-245

Index
pp 246-250

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