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Playback and studies of animal communication / edited by Peter K. McGregor.

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Playback and studies of animal communication / edited by Peter K. McGregor.
Publication
New York : Plenum Press, c1992.

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Additional Authors
  • McGregor, Peter K.
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division
  • NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Playback and Studies of Animal Communication: Problems and Prospects (1991 : Chesterfield, England)
Description
ix, 231 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Series Statement
NATO ASI series. Series A, Life sciences ; v. 228
Uniform Title
NATO ASI series. Series A, Life sciences v. 228.
Subject
  • Nonverbal Communication
  • Animal Communication
  • Animal communication > Congresses
  • Animal behavior > Methodology > Congresses
  • Animal sounds > Recording and reproducing > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • "Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Playback and Studies of Animal Communication: Problems and Prospects, held August 5-9, 1991, at Thornbridge Hall, near Chesterfield, United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.
  • "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Design of playback experiments: the Thornbridge Hall NATO ARW consensus / Peter K. McGregor [and others] -- Playback: a historical perspective / J. Bruce Falls -- Integrating playback: a wider context / Clive K. Catchpole -- What studies on learning can teach us about playback design / Irene M. Pepperberg -- Conducting playback experiments and interpreting their results / H. Carl Gerhardt -- Quantifying responses to playback: one, many, or composite multivariate measures? / Peter K. McGregor -- Interactive playback: a finely tuned response / Torben Dabelsteen -- Playback as a tool for studying contests between social groups / Karen McComb -- Song overproduction, song matching and selective attrition during development / Douglas A. Nelson.
  • Male quality and playback in the great tit / Marcel M. Lambrechts -- Mechanisms and function of call-timing in male-male interactions in frogs / Georg M. Klump and H. Carl Gerhardt -- Measuring responses of female birds to male song / William A. Searcy -- Field experiments on the perception of song types by birds / Andrew G. Horn --Bird song and operant experiments: a new tool to investigate song perception / Daniel M. Weary -- Pitch processing strategies in birds: a comparison of laboratory and field studies / Laurence Ratcliffe and Ron Weisman.
ISBN
0306442051
LCCN
^^^92011598^
OCLC
  • 25630085
  • SCSB-14235994
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