Contents
Series Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 1 Perspectives and Progress in Animal Acoustic
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Andrea Megela Simmons
Chapter 2 The Physical Acoustics of Underwater Sound
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Andrew H. Bass and Christopher W. Clark
Chapter 3 Unpacking “Honesty”: Vertebrate Vocal Production
and the Evolution of Acoustic Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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W. Tecumseh Fitch and Marc D. Hauser
Chapter 4 Social Sounds: Vocal Learning and Development
of Mammal and Bird Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Janette Wenrick Boughman and Cynthia F. Moss
Chapter 5 Selection on Long-Distance Acoustic Signals . . . . . . . . 225
Michael J. Ryan and Nicole M. Kime
Chapter 6 Hormonal Mechanisms in Acoustic Communication . . . 275
Ayako Yamaguchi and Darcy B. Kelley
Chapter 7 The Neuroethology of Vocal Communication:
Perception and Cognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Timothy Q. Gentner and Daniel Margoliash
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
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