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Bird song has long been an inspiration to poets, and a delight to many other people, but why do birds sing? The subject has been studied extensively in the past few decades, so that there is now hardly an area of animal behaviour onto which research on song does not shed some light. This book explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint, and reviews the large literature written on the subject. The book is written with a wide readership...
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"Many marine mammals communicate by emitting sounds that pass through water. Such sounds can be received across great distances and can influence the behavior of these undersea creatures. In the past few decades, the oceans have become increasingly noisy, as underwater sounds from propellers, sonars, and other human activities make it difficult for marine mammals to communicate. This book will discuss, among many other topics, just how well marine...
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"The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language--in its modern form--remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution. In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering...
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