Nature's Music: The Science of BirdsongElsevier, 2004 M10 5 - 504 páginas The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature’s Music brings together some of the world’s experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds. * The scoop on local dialects in birdsong* How birdsongs are used for fighting and flirting* The writers are all international authorities on their subject |
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Nature's Music: The Science of Birdsong Peter Marler,Hans Willem Slabbekoorn Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
Nature's Music: The Science of Birdsong Peter R. Marler,Hans Slabbekoorn Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
Nature's Music: The Science of Birdsong Peter R. Marler,Hans Slabbekoorn Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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Página 3 - ... also so uncertain where they may stop, that it is impossible to reduce the passages to form a musical bar in any time whatsoever ; — secondly, on account of the pitch of most birds being considerably higher than the most shrill notes of instruments of the greatest compass ; — and lastly, because the intervals used by birds are commonly so minute that we cannot judge at all of them from the more gross intervals into which our musical octave is divided.
Página 10 - ... phylogeny. Thus, where the innate powers of recognition can only carry the animal a part of the way towards its goal, the process is completed and adjusted by a proclivity to attend to certain aspects of a situation and learn in certain restricted times and directions (as in the tendency of a bird to learn and copy the song of its own species in preference to the song of another) so that experience completes for the individual the process initiated by its inherited constitution.