Coding Strategies in Vertebrate Acoustic Communication (Hardcover)

Acoustic Coding Strategies Through the Lens of the Mathematical Theory of Communication.- To Shout or to Whisper? Strategies for Encoding Public and Private Information in Sound Signals.- The Bird Dawn Chorus Revisited.- Coding Human Languages for Long-Range Communication in Natural Ecological Environments: Shouting, Whistling, and Drumming.- Coding of Static Information in Terrestrial Mammal Vocal Signals.- Coding for 'Dynamic' Information: Vocal Expression of Emotional Arousal and Valence in Non-human Animals.- Seasonal Hormone Fluctuations and Song Structure of Birds.- From Vocal to Neural Encoding: A Transversal Investigation of Information Transmission at Long Distance in Birds.- Mother-Offspring Vocal Recognition and Social System in Pinnipeds.- Acoustic Coding of Information in a Complex Social Network: Identity Signaling in Northern Elephant Seals.- How Songbird Females Sample Male Song: Communication Networks and Mate Choice.- Interspecific Communication: Gaining Information from Heterospecific Alarm Calls.- A Framework to Understand Interspecific Multimodal Signaling Systems.