Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In 1980, Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney and Peter Marler published a landmark paper in Science claiming language-like semantic communication in the alarm calls of vervet monkeys.
Drew Rendall
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Functionally referential signals: a promising paradigm whose time has passed [PDF]
, 2012 Finding the evolutionary origins of human language in the communication systems of our closest living relatives has, for the last several decades, been a major goal of many in the field of animal communication generally and primate communication ...
Fischer, Julia, Wheeler, Brandon C
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Urban impacts on oxidative balance and their implications for animal signaling
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Though many animal ornaments and signals are sensitive to and encode information about the oxidative balance (OB) of individuals (e.g. antioxidant supplies/activity, reactive oxygen species, cellular oxidative damage/repair), often the environmental and ...
Pierce eHutton, Kevin J McGraw
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Behavioural Analysis of Dogs’ Response to Threatening and Neutral Conspecific Video Stimuli
Applied Sciences, 2023 Dogs’ displacement behaviours and some facial expressions have been suggested to function as appeasement signals, reducing the occurrences of aggressive interactions.
Giulia Pedretti +4 more
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Signaling in a polluted world: oxidative stress as an overlooked mechanism linking contaminants to animal communication [PDF]
, 2016 The capacity to communicate effectively with other individuals plays a critical role in the daily life of an individual and can have important fitness consequences.
Costantini, David, Marasco, Valeria
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Singing silver‐haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans)
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2023 Characterizing sounds produced by animals can lead to better understanding of their behavioral ecology and conservation. While considerable focus has been on signals used by bats for echolocation, there has been less emphasis on nonecholocation sounds ...
Cori L. Lausen +6 more
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What is a robot companion - friend, assistant or butler? [PDF]
, 2005 The study presented in this paper explored people's perceptions and attitudes towards the idea of a future robot companion for the home. A human-centred approach was adopted using questionnaires and human-robot interaction trials to derive data from 28 ...
Dautenhahn, K. +5 more
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Context-driven communication during deep-sea foraging in a social toothed whale
Royal Society Open ScienceSocial deep-diving odontocetes face the challenge of balancing near-surface proximity to oxygen and group members with foraging in the deep sea. Individuals rely on conspecifics for critical life functions, such as predator defence, but disperse during ...
Sanne Hessing +7 more
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Animal Signals, Music and Emotional Well-Being
Animals, 2021 Playing music or natural sounds to animals in human care is thought to have beneficial effects. An analysis of published papers on the use of human-based music with animals demonstrates a variety of different results even within the same species.
Charles T. Snowdon
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Ninety-day oral toxicity studies on two genetically modified maize MON810 varieties in Wistar Han RCC rats (EU 7th Framework Programme project GRACE) [PDF]
, 2014 The GMO Risk Assessment and Communication of Evidence (GRACE; www.grace-fp7.eu) project is funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme.
Ambrušová, Katarína +9 more
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