Principles of Animal Communication

by Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp. 1998. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates. Hardcover 882 pp. Preface: This book is the outcome of 25 years of good intentions. It is the much evolved spawn of a popular undergraduate course in animal communication first developed with Robert Capranica at Cornell University in 1970... This text is more material than anyone (including us) can tech in one term... Introduction: This book is about how animals communicate with each other and why they do it the way they do... Our concern...is to extract the general principles that govern the evolution of animal communication systems...

Contents:
1. Introduction
2. The Properties of Sound
3. Fourier Analysis
4. Sound Production
5. Sound Propagation
6. Sound Reception
7. Properties of Light
8. Production and Transmission of Light Signals
9. Light Signal Reception
10. Chemical Signals
11. Electroreception
12. Optimizing Communication
13. The Amount of Information
14. The Value of Information
15. Coding
16. Signal Evolution
17. Cost and Constraints on Signal Evolution
18. Signal Design Rules
19. Evolutionary Game Theory
20. Signal Honesty
21. Conflict Resolution
22. Territorial Signaling Games
23. Mating Games and Signaling
24. Social Integration
25. Environmental Signals
26. Autocomminciation

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