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Interspecific Communication: Gaining Information from Heterospecific Alarm Calls
Many birds and mammals give alarm calls when they detect predators or other threats, and these calls have been used as classic models for...
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The Bird Dawn Chorus Revisited
The bird dawn chorus has fascinated humans since ancient times, but still today numerous questions remain unclear. This chapter will explore this...
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How Songbird Females Sample Male Song: Communication Networks and Mate Choice
The behavioural decisions animals take directly influence their fitness and thus have a fundamental impact on evolutionary processes. In many...
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Coding Human Languages for Long-Range Communication in Natural Ecological Environments: Shouting, Whistling, and Drumming
Human languages represent very complex coding systems that can be decoded by the human brain after a long acquisition phase. In their acoustic form,...
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A Framework to Understand Interspecific Multimodal Signaling Systems
Continued interest in multimodal signaling systems has resulted in new frameworks to understand the evolution and use of these complex signals. Most...
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Acoustic Coding of Information in a Complex Social Network: Identity Signaling in Northern Elephant Seals
The process of learning plays a pivotal role when an animal must correctly identify individuals within a dynamic social group. In male–male...
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From Vocal to Neural Encoding: A Transversal Investigation of Information Transmission at Long Distance in Birds
Acoustic communication in the natural world requires both emitter and receiver to adapt to the loss of information due to the transmission of sound...
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Seasonal Hormone Fluctuations and Song Structure of Birds
Traditionally, it is assumed that singing of birds is a male-typical testosterone-dependent behavior. In this review I point out that singing outside...
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To Shout or to Whisper? Strategies for Encoding Public and Private Information in Sound Signals
To make sound communication public or private is a question of making the active space of the emitted sound signals large or small. A sender can only...
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Coding of Static Information in Terrestrial Mammal Vocal Signals
Understanding how information is encoded in vocal signals, and what function it serves during social and sexual interactions, is a key objective of...
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Acoustic Coding Strategies Through the Lens of the Mathematical Theory of Communication
The Mathematical Theory of Communication predicts how the amount of information of a signal is transmitted from an emitter to a receiver after...
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Mother–Offspring Vocal Recognition and Social System in Pinnipeds
In many species, parents and offspring have developed the ability to vocally identify each other. In avian species, a strong relationship between...
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Communication, Speech and Language
Communication it too broad a concept and speech is too narrow to consider as the form of information transfer in animals. A polymorphous concept of...
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Information-Theoretic Methods for Studying Ant “Language”
Most of the literature that uses information-theoretic methods to study animal communications represents the signals emitted by animals as “texts”....
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Language Behaviour in Ants
Experimental evidence of information transmission in ants is considered, from early experimental results to the general experimental paradigm...
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Social Hymenopterans as Reliable Agents for Information Transmission
The majority of models consider cognitive skills and individual interactions in social insects redundant, and assume that their behaviour is governed...
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Do Animal “Languages” Need Translation? The Main Experimental Approaches to Studying Language Behaviour
The main experimental paradigms in animal intelligent communication are considered. (1) Direct decoding of animal signals enabled researchers to...
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Ant “Language” Gives Insight into Studying Animal Numerical Competence
Most of the existing experimental schemes for studying numerical processing in animals are restricted to studying subjects at the individual level....
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The Code Paradigm
Today there are two major theoretical frameworks in biology. One is the ‘chemical paradigm’, the idea that life is an extremely complex form of...
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A Gallery of Organic Codes
The discovery of the genetic code has revealed the existence of a deep parallel between protein synthesis and language. In both cases, a small set of...