Bird Song
Biological Themes and Variations
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1995
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-41799-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-41799-0 (ISBN)
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Why do birds sing? How do they produce the sounds we recognise as songs and calls? Do birds have dialects? Here, the reader is guided through the complexities of such questions, and is shown how the study of bird song can shed light on to many aspects of animal behaviour.
Bird Song has long been an inspiration to poets, and a delight to many other people, but why do birds sing? Bird song has been studied extensively in the past few decades, so that there is now hardly an area of animal behaviour on to which studies of song do not shed light. This book explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint, reviewing the literature written on the subject and considering its intricate nature. It is written with a wide readership in mind so that, while undergraduate and postgraduate students of biology may gain particularly from it, both professional biologists interested in bird behaviour and amateur ornithologists with some knowledge of biology will also find it a mine of information.
Bird Song has long been an inspiration to poets, and a delight to many other people, but why do birds sing? Bird song has been studied extensively in the past few decades, so that there is now hardly an area of animal behaviour on to which studies of song do not shed light. This book explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint, reviewing the literature written on the subject and considering its intricate nature. It is written with a wide readership in mind so that, while undergraduate and postgraduate students of biology may gain particularly from it, both professional biologists interested in bird behaviour and amateur ornithologists with some knowledge of biology will also find it a mine of information.
Introduction; 1. The study of bird song; 2. Production and perception; 3. How song develops; 4. Getting the message across; 5. When do birds sing?; 6. Recognition and territorial defence; 7. Sexual selection and female choice; 8. Themes and variations; 9. Variation in time and space; List of common and scientific names; References; Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.4.1995 |
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Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, unspecified; 91 Line drawings, unspecified |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 196 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 740 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-41799-6 / 0521417996 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-41799-0 / 9780521417990 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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