Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants

by Zhanna Reznikova

Book Overview

The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals. To do so, she pursues a fundamentally new approach to studying animal communication and "linguistic" capacities on the basis of measuring the rate of information transmission and the complexity of transmitted messages.

Animals' communication systems and cognitive abilities have long-since...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319831615
• ISBN13: 9783319831619
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 92 Pages