Title: Animal vocal communication : a new approach /
Authors: Owings, Donald H. 1943-; Morton, Eugene S.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Animal communication
Contents: 1. Overview of ideas -- 1.1. An evolutionary approach: ultimate questions -- 1.2. An evolutionary approach: proximate questions -- 2. The roles of assessment and management in communication -- 2.1. Placing assessment on a par with management -- 2.2. Management as regulation: applying the pragmatic, self-interested logic of natural selection in both proximate and ultimate time scales -- 2.3. The structure and functioning of assessment and management systems -- 2.4. Rejoining proximate and ultimate: implications for vocal communication -- 2.5. The interplay between assessment and management in multiple time frames -- 3. Form and function in vocal communication -- 3.1. Consequences, society, fighting, and the origin of vocal communication -- 3.2. The origin of vocal communication: expressive size symbolism and the motivation-structural code -- 3.3. The motivation structural code in birds and mammals: beyond size symbolism -- 3.4. The motivation-structural code -- 3.5. Ontogeny, asymmetries, and the motivation structural code -- 3.6. A mammalian vocal specialty -- 3.7. Long-distance signals and communication -- 3.8. Development of the ranging hypothesis for distance estimation -- 3.9. Ranging, the arms race between manager and assessor, and the learning of long-distance signals in birds -- 4. Mechanisms and proximate processes of vocal communication -- 4.1. Perception -- 4.2. Motivation -- 4.3. Emotion -- 4.4. Cognition -- 4.5. Development -- 5. Assessment/management: a viable replacement for the information concept -- 5.1. Why the informational perspective is inadequate -- 5.2. Comparing approaches: examples from the Prologue -- 5.3. Assessment and management under natural and sexual selection -- 5.4. The mechanisms of communication.