Animal Communication: Timing Counts [PDF]
Current Biology, 2007 Collective signalling in animals has fascinated biologists for a long time. A recent study on Australian songbirds sheds new light on the function of highly coordinated avian duets.
Brumm, H., Slater, P.
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An ecological and neurobiological perspective on the evolution of vocal learning
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Vocal production learning (VPL) involves the use of auditory experience to guide the production of novel signals or to modify pre-existing signals. It allows animals to develop signals that are more complex and/or more flexible than innately developed ...
Eliot A. Brenowitz +3 more
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The Pastoral Origin of Semiotically Functional Tonal Organization of Music
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper presents a new line of inquiry into when and how music as a semiotic system was born. Eleven principal expressive aspects of music each contains specific structural patterns whose configuration signifies a certain affective state.
Aleksey Nikolsky
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Effective communication to improve udder health: can social science help? [PDF]
, 2011 Improved udder health requires consistent application of appropriate management practices by those involved in managing dairy herds and the milking process. Designing effective communication requires that we understand why dairy herd managers behave in
Garforth, Chris
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 To function effectively, animal signals must transmit through the environment to receivers, and signal transmission properties depend on signal form. Here we investigated how the transmission of multiple parts of a well-studied signal, bird song, varies ...
Lauryn Benedict +2 more
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Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment: An Empirical Model to Describe Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment on the Culling of Healthy Animals During an Animal Disease Epidemic [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper, we present and defend the theoretical framework of an empirical model to describe people’s fundamental moral attitudes (FMAs) to animals, the stratification of FMAs in society and the role of FMAs in judgment on the culling of healthy ...
Brom, F.W.A., Cohen, N.E., Stassen, E.N.
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Problematising upstream technology through speculative design: the case of quantified cats and dogs [PDF]
, 2015 There is growing interest in technology that quantifies aspects of our lives. This paper draws on critical practice and speculative design to explore, question and problematise the ultimate consequences of such technology using the quantification of ...
Feltwell, Tom +4 more
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The importance of visual markings in night birds. The case of the Eagle Owl, Bubo bubo
Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2012 This work brings together the results of a series of researches on the importance of the visual communication for nocturnal birds, carried out using the Eagle Owl as a model species.
Vincenzo Penteriani +2 more
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Higher social tolerance is associated with more complex facial behavior in macaques
eLife, 2023 The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity posits that animal societies with more complex social systems require more complex communication systems. We tested the social complexity hypothesis on three macaque species that vary in their
Alan V Rincon +6 more
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Smart Computing and Sensing Technologies for Animal Welfare: A Systematic Review [PDF]
, 2016 Animals play a profoundly important and intricate role in our lives today. Dogs have been human companions for thousands of years, but they now work closely with us to assist the disabled, and in combat and search and rescue situations.
Amla, Nina +2 more
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