Not only Roars & Rituals
Explores the enormous variety of ways in which different animals communicate with each other and makes comparisons with humans where appropriate.
Not Only Roars & Rituals explores the complexities of communication in animals and considers the rich and wide variety of communication patterns in different species. Many examples of how animals communicate with each other by sight, sound, smell, touch and even electrical signalling are given, and comparisons are made with communication in humans. The final chapter explores the future of communication between humans and animals.
'Lesley Rogers and Gisela Kaplan provide an excellent introduction to a fascinating subject. They use a wonderful range of examples, both from the scientific literature and from their own wide experience of animals, to illustrate what is known about how animals communicate with each other. They do not shy away from complex issues, but their readable and approachable style brings the ideas and controversies in this field alive. The book will give readers new insights into both the behaviour of animals towards each other and our relationship with the animals around us. ' PETER SLATER, PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
'Rogers and Kaplan have prepared a fine smorgasbord of appetizing information on social communication, mainly in birds and mammals, often spiced with the authors' own observations. The text is peppered with accounts of key studies, many very recent, not only of such classical subjects as chimpanzees, vervet monkeys and marmosets, chickens, chaffinches and great tits, but also with observations on riflebirds, kookaburras, lyrebirds, frogmouths, and a sampling of some of Australia's wonderfully diverse parrot species. ' PETER MARLER, CENTER FOR ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ISBN: 1 86448 798 4
Published: November 1998