The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate

Cover
Contents
Foreword by Bernie Krause
Note to the Reader
1. Animal Chatters: Tinbergen’s Four Questions
2. Making Circles in Water: A Short Vade Mecum of Physical Acoustics
3. The Warbler’s Eyebrows: Why do Birds Sing?
4. Cocktails Between Birds: Noise and Communication Theory
5. Family Dinner: Parent-Offspring Communication
6. Submarine Ears: Underwater Bioacoustics
7. The Tango of the Elephant Seals: Vocal Signals and Conflict Ritualization
8. The Caiman’s Tears: Acoustic Communication in Crocodiles
9. Hear, at all Costs: Mechanisms of Audition
10. Tell Me What You Look Like: Production of Sound Signals
11. Networking Addiction: Acoustic Communication Networks
12. Learning to Talk: Vocal Learning in Birds and Mammals
13. Inaudible Speech: Ultrasounds, Infrasounds, and Vibrations
14. The Laughing Hyena: Communications and Complex Social Systems
15. Ancestral Fears: The Acoustic Expression of Emotions
16. The Booby’s Foot: Acoustic Communications and Sex Roles
17. Listening to the Living: Ecoacoustics and Biodiversity
18. Words . . . Words: Do Animals Have a Language?
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Index