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animal communication

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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

Entry terms

  • animal communities
  • animal community
  • animated communicating
  • animating communicative
  • animation communities

Scope note

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URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0042

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