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animal communication

Definition

[Peggy S. M. Hill] Animal communication is a dynamic field that promotes cross-disciplinary study of the complexmechanisms of sending and receiving signals, the neurobiology of signal detection and processing,and the behaviors of animals creating and responding to encoded messages. Alongside visual signals,songs, or pheromones exists another major communication channel that has been rather neglected untilrecent decades: substrate-borne vibration...

Broader concept

biological process

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Creator

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-3997

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21093

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Created 8/3/16, last modified 7/18/18

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