Songs, Roars, and Rituals: Communication in Birds, Mammals, and Other Animals - Softcover

Rogers, Lesley J.; Kaplan, Gisela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674008278 ISBN 13: 9780674008274

Verlag: Harvard Univ Pr, 2002

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Book by Rogers Lesley J Kaplan Gisela

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A well-written survey of what is known about communication in animals (mostly birds and mammals) in eight concise chapters...As a primer to an exciting field of animal behavior, this eminently readable account succeeds in thoroughly engaging the reader. -- Nancy Bent Booklist An accessible, non-technical volume on what all that growling, twittering, snorting and feather-ruffling actually signifies...While often startling, the book also leaves the reader warming to more unfluffy species, supporting the authors' subtext that all animals are worthy of our protection...This volume won't make you Dr. Dolittle, but it will make you question some preconceptions. -- Stephen McCarty South China Morning Post Songs, Roars, and Rituals...is a hard book to dislike. Rogers and Kaplan have an appealing writing style that rolls along with just the right ration of anecdote to theory. They make reference to a wide variety of birds and mammals from every continent...richly laden with examples of animal communication that clarify the definitions being offered...Rogers and Kaplan draw some tricky theoretical distinctions very well...entertaining and elucidative. -- Clive Wynne American Scientist 20010101 From the cat's meow to the bowerbird's bright-blue nest, animals constantly and variously exchange information...[The authors] have written an accessible, consistently absorbing and scientifically scrupulous survey of how animals send signals and of what evolutionary theory tells us about how they came to do so. Publishers Weekly 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 20010401

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Lesley J. Rogers is a full professor at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. Gisela Kaplan is a full professor at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

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• Verlag: Harvard Univ Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0674008278
• ISBN 13: 9780674008274
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224