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Playback and Studies of Animal Communication

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Peter K. McGregor

    1. Behaviour and Ecology Research Group, Department of Life Science, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series A: (NSSA, volume 228)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Design of Playback Experiments: The Thornbridge Hall NATO ARW Consensus

    • Peter K. McGregor, Clive K. Catchpole, Torben Dabelsteen, J. Bruce Falls, Leonida Fusani, H. Carl Gerhardt et al.
    Pages 1-9

  3. Playback: A Historical Perspective

    • J. Bruce Falls
    Pages 11-33

  4. Integrating Playback: A Wider Context

    • Clive K. Catchpole
    Pages 35-45

  5. What Studies on Learning can Teach us about Playback Design

    • Irene M. Pepperberg
    Pages 47-57

  6. Conducting Playback Experiments and Interpreting their Results

    • H. Carl Gerhardt
    Pages 59-77

  7. Quantifying Responses to Playback: One, Many, or Composite Multivariate Measures?

    • Peter K. McGregor
    Pages 79-96

  8. Interactive Playback: A Finely Tuned Response

    • Torben Dabelsteen
    Pages 97-109

  9. Playback as a Tool for Studying Contests between Social Groups

    • Karen McComb
    Pages 111-119

  10. Song Overproduction, Song Matching and Selective Attrition during Development

    • Douglas A. Nelson
    Pages 121-133

  11. Male Quality and Playback in the Great Tit

    • Marcel M. Lambrechts
    Pages 135-152

  12. Mechanisms and Function of Call-Timing in Male-Male Interactions in Frogs

    • Georg M. Klump, H. Carl Gerhardt
    Pages 153-174

  13. Measuring Responses of Female Birds to Male Song

    • William A. Searcy
    Pages 175-189

  14. Field Experiments on the Perception of Song Types by Birds

    • Andrew G. Horn
    Pages 191-200

  15. Bird Song and Operant Experiments: A New Tool to Investigate Song Perception

    • Daniel M. Weary
    Pages 201-210

  16. Pitch Processing Strategies in Birds: A Comparison of Laboratory and Field Studies

    • Laurene Ratcliffe, Ron Weisman
    Pages 211-223

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 225-231
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About this book

Playback is the technique of rebroadcasting natural or synthetic signals to animals and observing their response. The ability to present a putative signal in isolation, without the potential confounding effects of other activities of the signaller, is the main reason for the depth and range of our knowledge of communication systems. To date, playback of sound signals has predominated, but playback of electric signals and even video playback of visual signals suggests that playback will become just as prevalent in studies of communication in other sensory modalities. This book is one of the outcomes of a workshop on playback held at Thombridge Hall in the Peak District National Park, England during August 1991. There were two reasons for organising the workshop. First, the considerable and lively debate in the literature about the design and analysis of playback experiments -the pseudoreplication debate -was in danger of generating more heat than light. A workshop forum seemed the obvious place to clarify and, if possible, resolve the debate. Second, with the number of new playback and analysis techniques increasing rapidly, it seemed an opportune moment to discuss these techniques and to review some rapidly developing areas of interest in sound communication.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Behaviour and Ecology Research Group, Department of Life Science, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK

    Peter K. McGregor

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Playback and Studies of Animal Communication

  • Editors: Peter K. McGregor

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6203-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44205-6Published: 30 April 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3224-2Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-6203-7Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 231

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Zoology

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