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Optical Signals : Animal Communication and Light
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ISBN: 0253050731 Year: 1977 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Why do visual signals have the characteristics that they do? Why do animals (including man) gesture, posture, and move in communicative fashions? Why are animals colored and patterned in particular ways? Optical Signals is the first attempt to answer these and related questions. After presenting a synthetic framework of social communication, ethology, mathematical information theory, and semiotics, Hailman explains the relevant background: considerations of the physics of light that carry information from sender to receiver, and properties that limit the receiver's ability to get and send information encoded in light. Next Hailman puts together data from different disciplines in order to discover the "design characteristics" of optical signals. The major part of the book concerns these design characteristics and factors that influence them: behavioral patterns and coloration that look like visual signals but are not, principles of visual deception, and the way in which the physical and biological environment structures the characteristics of signals. Lastly, the book considers how the message being transmitted influences the design of the signal itself.


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The ontogeny of an instinct : the pecking response in chicks of the laughing gull (Larus Atricilla L.) and related species
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Year: 1967 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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Laughing gull. --- Birds --- Instinct. --- Behavior.

Planning, proposing, and presenting science effectively
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ISBN: 9780511541469 9780521826471 9780521533881 9780511257391 0511257392 0511254709 9780511254703 0511257716 9780511257711 0511256892 9780511256899 9780511255809 0511255802 0521533880 0521826470 0511255802 0511541465 1107160057 1280709715 9786610709717 0511319533 051125637X Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. New York Cambridge University Press

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This concise guide to planning, writing, and presenting research is intended for biology students of all levels, especially those in behavioral ecology, The reader is guided through a discussion of the nature of scientific research, how to plan research, and how to obtain funding. The authors give advice and guidelines for presenting results at research seminars and scientific meetings, and also provide useful tips on preparing abstracts and posters for scientific meetings. They discuss how to write an effective C.V. and give general tips on how to write clearly. The book is illuminated throughout with personal examples from the authors' own experiences and emphasis is placed on problems associated with field studies. All biologists will find this a valuable resource and guide for the early years of their scientific careers and established faculty will find it an essential instructional tool.


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An introduction to animal behavior : ethology's first century
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Year: 1967 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.) : Prentice-Hall,

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Function and evolution of behavior : an historical sample from the pens of ethologists
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Year: 1972 Publisher: Reading (Mass.) : Addison-Wesley,

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An introduction to animal behavior; : ethology's first century
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An introduction to animal behavior: ethology's first century
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