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Presenting the most recent findings and research in bird and mammal vocalization, this volume is the newest installment in the Advances in the Study of Behavior serial.

Table of Contents

Introduction by the editors
Environmental acoustics and the evolution of communication (Dr. Henrik Brumm & Prof. Dr. Marc Naguib)
The evolution of song in songbirds (Dr. Diego Gil)
Vocal duetting in birds (Dr. Michelle L Hall)
Form and function of vocal communication in delphinids (Dr. Vincent M. Janik)
Individually distinctive vocalizations: applying vocal communication (Dr. Peter K. McGregor)
Proximate constraints on avian vocal evolution (Dr. Jeff Podos)
Beauty is in the ear of the beholder: developmental causes of variation in female song preferences (Dr. Katharina Riebel)
Communication in social learning in primates (Prof. Charles Snowdon)
Vocal learning and vocal development in cetaceans (Dr. Peter Tyack)
Use and function of alarm calls in birds and primates (Prof. Dr. Klaus Zuberbühler)

About the Author

Marc Naguib is professor in Behavioural Ecology at the Animal Sciences Department of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He studied biology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and received his PhD (1995) at UNC Chapel Hill, NC in the US. After his PhD held positions at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (1995-1999) and Bielefeld University (2000-2007) in Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (2008-2011), until he was appointed in 2011 as Chair of the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is specialized in vocal communication, social behaviour, animal personality and the effects of conditions experienced during early development on behaviour and life history traits, mainly using song birds as model. His research group is also involved in animal welfare research using farm animals. He has served for many years on the council of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and of the Ethologische Gesellschaft. He published > 80 scientific publications and has been Editor for Advances in the Study of Behaviour since 2003. Since 2014 he is Executive Editor.

Reviews

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