Animal Communication

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A bird's eye view: top down intracellular analyses of auditory selectivity for learned vocalizations. 
  • Acoustic ecology of the California mantis shrimp (Hemisquilla californiensis). 
  • Apes' and children's understanding of cooperative and competitive motives in a communicative situation. 
  • Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task. 
  • Auditory plasticity in a basal ganglia-forebrain pathway during decrystallization of adult birdsong. 
  • Baby on board: olfactory cues indicate pregnancy and fetal sex in a non-human primate. 
  • Behavior. Like infant, like dog. 
  • Bird communication: two voices are better than one. 
  • Body language: The interplay between positional behavior and gestural signaling in the genus Pan and its implications for language evolution. 
  • Bottlenose dolphins exchange signature whistles when meeting at sea. 
  • Categorical colour perception occurs in both signalling and non-signalling colour ranges in a songbird. 
  • Chemical differences between voided and bladder urine in the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis): implications for olfactory communication studies. 
  • Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes) coordinate by communicating in a collaborative problem-solving task. 
  • Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) instrumentally help but do not communicate in a mutualistic cooperative task. 
  • Chimpanzees do not take into account what others can hear in a competitive situation. 
  • Comparative tests of evolutionary trade-offs in a palinurid lobster acoustic system. 
  • Considering the role of social dynamics and positional behavior in gestural communication research. 
  • Coordination strategies of chimpanzees and human children in a Stag Hunt game. 
  • Costs of injury for scent signalling in a strepsirrhine primate. 
  • D'scent of man: a comparative survey of primate chemosignaling in relation to sex. 
  • Decoding an olfactory mechanism of kin recognition and inbreeding avoidance in a primate. 
  • Design, delivery and perception of condition-dependent chemical signals in strepsirrhine primates: implications for human olfactory communication. 
  • Different social motives in the gestural communication of chimpanzees and human children. 
  • Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires? 
  • Fluorescence as a means of colour signal enhancement. 
  • Genetics of incipient speciation in Drosophila mojavensis. III. Life-history divergence in allopatry and reproductive isolation. 
  • Genetics of incipient speciation in Drosophila mojavensis: II. Host plants and mating status influence cuticular hydrocarbon QTL expression and G x E interactions. 
  • Gestural communication in subadult bonobos (Pan paniscus): repertoire and use. 
  • Gestural communication in young gorillas (Gorilla gorilla): gestural repertoire, learning, and use. 
  • Honest olfactory ornamentation in a female-dominant primate. 
  • How two word-trained dogs integrate pointing and naming. 
  • Human-like social skills in dogs? 
  • Listening in. 
  • Microglial dopamine receptor elimination defines sex-specific nucleus accumbens development and social behavior in adolescent rats. 
  • Molecular mapping of movement-associated areas in the avian brain: a motor theory for vocal learning origin. 
  • Mouse vocal communication system: are ultrasounds learned or innate? 
  • Multiscale spatio-temporal patterns of boat noise on U.S. Virgin Island coral reefs. 
  • Mutual visual signalling between the cleaner shrimp Ancylomenes pedersoni and its client fish. 
  • Nasopalatine ducts and flehmen behavior in the mandrill: reevaluating olfactory communication in Old World primates. 
  • Neuroethology of primate social behavior. 
  • Night and day: the comparative study of strepsirrhine primates reveals socioecological and phylogenetic patterns in olfactory signals. 
  • Nonlinear phenomena in the vocalizations of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) and killer whales (Orcinus orca). 
  • Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. 
  • Production and Comprehension of Gestures between Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a Referential Communication Game. 
  • Production and comprehension of referential pointing by orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). 
  • Reproductive endocrine patterns and volatile urinary compounds of Arctictis binturong: discovering why bearcats smell like popcorn. 
  • Smelling right: the scent of male lemurs advertises genetic quality and relatedness. 
  • Smelling wrong: hormonal contraception in lemurs alters critical female odour cues. 
  • Social communication in siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus): use of gestures and facial expressions. 
  • Social context-dependent singing-regulated dopamine. 
  • Song function and the evolution of female preferences: why birds sing, why brains matter. 
  • Songbirds learn songs least degraded by environmental transmission. 
  • Spiny lobsters stick and slip to make sound. 
  • Squeaking with a sliding joint: mechanics and motor control of sound production in palinurid lobsters. 
  • Squeaking with a sliding joint: mechanics and motor control of sound production in palinurid lobsters. 
  • Temporal patterns in the acoustic signals of beaked whales at Cross Seamount. 
  • The "secret" in secretions: methodological considerations in deciphering primate olfactory communication. 
  • The acoustics and acoustic behavior of the California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus). 
  • The basal ganglia within a cognitive system in birds and mammals. 
  • The goal of ape pointing. 
  • The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures. 
  • The roar of the lionfishes Pterois volitans and Pterois miles. 
  • The role of past interactions in great apes' communication about absent entities. 
  • Thirty years of great ape gestures. 
  • Threshold assessment, categorical perception, and the evolution of reliable signaling. 
  • Underwater linear polarization: physical limitations to biological functions. 
  • Visual Acuity and the Evolution of Signals. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Nowicki, Stephen, Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society