| Description |
ix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Vibration as a Channel for Information Transfer -- 2. Communication and the Medium -- 3. Receiving Signals -- 4. Sending Signals -- 5. Predator-Prey Interactions -- 6. Mating -- 7. Group Information Transfer -- 8. Why Vibration? |
| Summary |
"In creatures as different as crickets and scorpions, mole rats and elephants, there exists an overlooked channel of communication: signals transmitted as vibrations through a solid substrate. Peggy Hill summarizes a generation of groundbreaking work by scientists around the world on this long understudied form of animal communication."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-248) and indexes |
| Subject |
Animal communication.
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Bioacoustics.
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Vibration.
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| LC no. |
2007038954 |
| ISBN |
9780674027985 (alk. paper) |
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0674027981 (alk. paper) |
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