Sentences with phrase «of animal communication»

Much like abstraction, aniconism is democratic, meaning it plays to the most universal form of animal communication — substitution; or the understanding that one thing is capable of meaning another thing.

She has even used the services of the Gurney Institute of Animal Communication, which claims to be able to locate and «speak» with missing pets.

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McCowan says it's an exciting time for the whole field of animal communication.

Thorpe stated that he personally had found Whitehead's thought of little help in relation to his own work on animal behaviour which was largely concerned with birdsong, but I think Suzanne Langer has shown that it may indeed be illuminating to think of problems of animal communication and eventually human language in terms of instructions, subjective aims or feelings, rather than in terms of information and description of states of affairs.

Not exact matches

Consider, for instance, David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery Communications (owner of the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and the Oprah Winfrey Network).

There are, for example, signals used in animal communication, nonconventional signals which include some gestures, and single - word sentences such as the word «Tree» used by children in the early stages of language acquisition.

Regarding the three children who lived their lives entirely in the cellar, Kerstin Fritzel, 19, and her brothers Stefan, 18, and Felix, five, have been alone in the cellar for so long that they developed their own type of communication via growls, grunts and animal like sounds.

Because i beleive animals are a gift from God and a primary means of communication.

An important and foundational aspect of human communication is the scent of those hormones which foster affiliation across the animal kingdom, which are called pheromones.

Take the burgeoning subfield of Animal Rhetorics, where theorists now use Aristotle and Derrida to study non-human communication.

Lisa Chalk, Communications Director at Animals Australia, told Mashable with the state election coming up this weekend, the organisation wanted to create awareness about the fact shooting of native waterbirds is still legal in the state of Victoria.

Hens are intelligent, highly social animals with a communication system that includes dozens of different vocalizations.

They can talk with the printer, potter, and blacksmith as they work, ride a stagecoach, tour our gardens, and meet our Heritage breed farm animals,» notes Ann Lindblad, OSV vice president of communications.

Its founding members include the animal rights group New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Safe Streets (NYCLASS), Communications Workers of America union Local 1180 President Arthur Cheliotes and Wendy Neu, the CEO of Hugo Neu Corporation.

Its founding members are Arthur Cheliotes, the president of the Communications Workers of America union Local 1180, Hugo Neu Corporation CEO Wendy Neu, and NYCLASS, a group of animals rights activists who have demanded an end to horse - drawn carriage rides, which Quinn supports.

Understanding the regional vocal patterns of various canid species sheds light on animal communication and could help ranchers broadcast «keep away» messages to protect livestock.

This week in Nature Communications, an interdisciplinary team of scientists proposes a more nuanced model for extinction that also shows why animal species tend to evolve toward larger body sizes.

The research indicates that the domestication of animals has a much broader impact on human - animal communication than previously believed.

In studying the ecology of the ocean, ignoring the most important form of communication is like studying the ecology of land while ignoring animal vision.»

Sequencing the genome of one such organism, King and her colleagues found genes that code for pieces of the same proteins used for the binding of cells and communication between cells in animals — functions that would be unexpected in such an organism.

To discover this, Hui Liu, Gene Robinson, and Eric Jakobsson of the University of Illinois developed new computational tools to analyze patterns of gene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers alarm.

«When we look at animal systems and try to understand behavior or communication, we have to do so from the perspective of the animals we're watching,» lead author Aaron Rundus says.

Marian Stamp Dawkins, an animal behavior expert at the University of Oxford, has championed the idea that aspects of sensory processing can influence the evolution of communication signals; for example, a nocturnal species whose predators are color - blind would not evolve colored warning splotches.

And their flexible, intelligent arms are the envy of roboticists and artificial intelligence engineers worldwide.But these animals, which have evolved over hundreds of millions of years, can teach us even more about security in the 21st century than camo and communications, Rafe Sagarin argues in his new book Learning from the Octopus: How secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters and disease (Basic Books, April 2012).

Peter Franek says that the scientists clearly were able to make out the calls of the fin whales to such detail that it might be useful even to the biologists who wish to study movement and sound communication patterns of these majestic animals.

Rami Tzabar and Angela Saini of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) won the Gold Award for radio reporting by exploring how animal models of vocal communication may be useful in understanding how human language might have evolved.

Some researchers have argued that a single mutation powered the «leap» from an animal - like communication system to something uniquely human (Science, 22 November 2002, p. 1569), and that some level of complexity was necessary from the outset.

For the new study, reported in the 20 April issue of Science, animal communication researcher Karen McComb of the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom, and Sarah Durant of the Institute of Zoology in London studied 20 small family groups of elephants, each typically containing several females and their calves, in Kenya.

«Previous work investigating communication of attention in animals has focused on cues that humans use: body orientation, head orientation, and eye gaze; no one else had gone beyond that.

As their name suggests, vocal animal communication forms an important part of their social behavior.

Antibiotic resistance must be approached using an interdisciplinary strategy based upon collaboration and communication across the fields of human, animal, and ecological health, said Laura Kahn, a co-founder of an multidisciplinary medicine initiative.

If correct, the finding would add to growing evidence that this so - called «speech gene» is involved in communication in a wide variety of animal species.

Now, mammal communication experts report that, at least for horses, a great deal of information is conveyed through the position of the animal's ears as well as its eyes.

«Acoustic communication — the «social calls,» not the echolocation used by these animals — is very important in this species, just like in the rest of the bats.

«Gall and Damsky's experiment helps us understand how human - caused noise can interfere with the transfer of information among animals in social groups,» according Florida Atlantic University's Rindy Anderson, an expert in vocal communication in birds who was not involved with the study.

In the current study, published in Nature Communications, the scientists created a new animal model of disease to determine if BBB leakage can cause autoimmunity.

The odd tube, although absent in all living animals, has been found inside the skull crests of certain species of dinosaurs — which also might have used the feature for low - frequency communication.

This sort of communication may occur in pipes, across colonies of soil bacteria, and in the intestinal tract of animals, potentially aiding the spread of disease.

Also, while many of the genes involved in basic cell functions are the same in this plant and animals, the set of genes for cell - to - cell communication vary dramatically between the two kingdoms.»

«It's an innovative way of getting at the problem» of what animals know about their environments, says Karen McComb, an expert in mammal communication and cognition at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.

Researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland have uncovered a new form of secret light communication used by marine animals.

A game theory model suggests that animal communication may have evolved to be honest most of the time, but not always

The study, which sheds light on the evolution of acoustic communication systems in animals, appears in the journal Current Biology.

«The origins of communication signals have long fascinated evolutionary biologists, and multiple potential mechanisms for these origins have been proposed,» says co-lead author Hannah ter Hofstede, an assistant professor at Dartmouth who investigates how sensory systems evolve to encode the environmental cues that are crucial for an animal's survival and reproduction.

«Marine animals use new form of secret light communication.»

And smitten animals may indeed have «chemistry» together — pheromone signals are a subconscious part of their communication.

Others have suggested giraffes use low frequency «infrasonic» sounds — sounds below the level of human perception — much like elephants and other large animals do for long - range communication.

«These are presumably very ancient modes of communication between the microbes and their animal hosts,» Rawls said.

In a new paper, experts outline several novel ideas for improving the lives of Killer whales in zoological institutions by enhancing the communication, feeding, environment, and health of the animals in order to elicit natural behaviours seen in the wild.