Songs, Roars & Rituals - Communication in Birds, Mammals & Other Animals (Na) - Hardcover

Rogers, LJ

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674000587 ISBN 13: 9780674000582

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2000

Synopsis

A concise and readable introduction to the complexities of communication in animals, offering insight on how animals communicate by sight, sound, smell, touch, and even electrical signaling. Explores a variety of communication patterns in many species of mammals and birds, discusses how communication signals evolved, and concludes with a look at the future of communication between humans and animals. The authors are professors at the University of New England, Australia. Rogers specializes in neuroscience and animal behavior. Kaplan specializes in ethology and social science. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Review

Rogers and Kaplan have written an introductory work that sets the table for a range of important topics: signaling and its importance, communication in birds and mammals, the ontogeny of communication, the evolution of communication, and animal-human contacts...The authors, throughout, make a strong case for the ethical treatment of animals, using communication as a property humans share that blurs the line between human superiority and animals' subordinate status...A welcome addition.--H.N. Cunningham, Jr."Choice" (04/01/2001)

Synopsis

A concise and readable introduction to the complexities of communication in animals, offering insight on how animals communicate by sight, sound, smell, touch, and even electrical signaling. Explores a variety of communication patterns in many species of mammals and birds, discusses how communication signals evolved, and concludes with a look at th

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674000587
• ISBN 13: 9780674000582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224