Animal Communication

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Acoustic ecology of the California mantis shrimp (Hemisquilla californiensis). 
  • Animal communication: sniffing is about more than just smell. 
  • Baby on board: olfactory cues indicate pregnancy and fetal sex in a non-human primate. 
  • 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. 
  • Chemical differences between voided and bladder urine in the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis): implications for olfactory communication studies. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Fluorescence as a means of colour signal enhancement. 
  • Honest olfactory ornamentation in a female-dominant primate. 
  • Human-like social skills in dogs? 
  • Information flow through threespine stickleback networks without social transmission. 
  • 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? 
  • 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. 
  • 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 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. 
  • 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 roar of the lionfishes Pterois volitans and Pterois miles. 
  • 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, Biology