| Title |
Animal signals : signalling and signal design in animal communication / edited by Yngve Espmark, Trond Amundsen, Gunilla Rosenqvist. |
| OCLC |
46685463 |
| ISBN |
8251915457 |
| Publisher |
Trondheim : Tapir Academic Press, [2000] |
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©2000 |
| Description |
496 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Animal communication -- Congresses.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Evolutionary implications of the interaction between animal signals and the environment / John A. Endler -- Efficacy and content in avian colour signals / Staffan Andersson -- Avian UV vision and sexual selection / Innes C. Cuthill, Julian C. Partridge and Andrew T.D. Bennet -- The visual ecology of reef fish colours / N. Justin Marshall -- A signalling tail / Susan Fitzpatrick -- Female ornaments: genetically correlated or sexually selected? / Trond Amundsen -- Is fluctuating asymmetry a visual signal? / John P. Swaddle -- Problems in studying receiver biases and their effects on signal evolution / Alexandra L. Basolo -- Environmental dependence of genetic indicator mechanisms / Ben C. Sheldon -- Signal function, signal efficiency and the evolution of anoline lizard dewlap color / Leo J. Fleishman -- Sexual signals and speciation / Glenn-Peter Saetre -- Prowess and the resolution of animal fights / Felicity A. Huntingford ... [et al.] -- Handicap, index, and conventional signal elements of bird song / Sandra L. Vehrencamp -- |
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Male-male competition and female choice in the evolution of vocal signalling / William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki -- Why female birds sing / Naomi E. Langmore -- Communication networks: receiver and signaller perspectives / Peter K. McGregor, Ken Otter and Tom M. Peake -- The significance of learning in signal development: the curious case of the chaffinch / Peter J.B. Slater, Robert F. Lachlan and Katharina Riebel -- Multiple nestling begging signals: reed warbler chicks and cuckoo tricks / Rebecca M. Kilner -- Scents of danger: the evolution of olfactory ornamentation in chemical-mediated predator-prey interactions / Brian D. Wisenden -- Signals and multi-modal signalling in spider communication / George W. Uetz -- Signals, parasites and the immune system / Marlene Zuk and Kurt A. McKean -- MHC genotype and ornamentation / Mats Grahn -- Examples of MHC-correlated sexual selection in mice and humans / Claus Wedekind ... [et al.] -- Knowledge, information, biases and signal assemblages / Oren Hasson -- Conflicts of interest in signal evolution / Rufus A. Johnstone. |
| General note |
"This book is based on the oral presentations given at an international symposium on Adaptive Significance of Signalling and Signal Design in Animal Communication venued at Kongsvoll, Norway, September 15-20, 1998 ... organized ... by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, the Foundation"--T.p. verso. |
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