Playback is the technique of rebroadcasting natural or synthetic signals to animals and observing their response. The ability to present a putative signal in isolation, without the potential confounding effects of other activities of the signaller, is the main reason for the depth and range of our knowledge of communication systems. To date, playback of sound signals has predominated, but playback of electric signals and even video playback of visual signals suggests that playback will become just as prevalent in studies of communication in other sensory modalities. This book is one of the outcomes of a workshop on playback held at Thombridge Hall in the Peak District National Park, England during August 1991. There were two reasons for organising the workshop. First, the considerable and lively debate in the literature about the design and analysis of playback experiments -the pseudoreplication debate -was in danger of generating more heat than light. A workshop forum seemed the obvious place to clarify and, if possible, resolve the debate. Second, with the number of new playback and analysis techniques increasing rapidly, it seemed an opportune moment to discuss these techniques and to review some rapidly developing areas of interest in sound communication.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-10
0306442051
ISBN-13
9780306442056
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94510
Product Key Features
Author
Peter K. Mcgregor
Publication Name
Playback and Studies of Animal Communication
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Animals / General, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year
1992
Series
NATO Science Series A: Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Science
Number of Pages
X, 231 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Item Weight
54.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
92-011598
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series Volume Number
228
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Qh359-425
Table of Content
Design of playback experiments: the Thornbridge Hall NATO ARW Consensus.- Playback: a historical perspective.- Integrating playback: a wider context.- What studies on learning can teach us about playback design.- Conducting playback experiments and interpreting their results.- Quantifying responses to playback: one, many, or composite multivariate measures?.- Interactive playback: a finely tuned response.- Playback as a tool for studying contests between social groups.- Song overproduction, song matching and selective attrition during development.- Male quality and playback in the great tit.- Mechanisms and function of call-timing in male-male interactions in frogs.- Measuring responses of female birds to male song.- Field experiments on the perception of song types by birds.- Bird song and operant experiments: a new tool to investigate song perception.- Pitch processing strategies in birds: a comparison of laboratory and field studies.- Participants.
Copyright Date
1992
Illustrated
Yes
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