Studying animal languages without translation : an insight from ants

• Main Author: Reznikova, Zh. I. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
• Subjects: komunikace živočichů; mravencovití; sociální hmyz; teorie informace; animal communication; ants; social insects; information theory; elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs
• ISBN: 9783319449180; 9783319449166
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Access: Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty

The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals. To do so, she pursues a fundamentally new approach to studying animal communication and ℓ́ℓlinguisticℓ́ℓ capacities on the basis of measuring the rate of information transmission and the complexity of transmitted messages. Animalsℓ́ℓ communication systems and cognitive abilities have long-since been a topic of particular interest to biologists, psychologists, linguists, and many others, including researchers in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. The main difficulties in the analysis of animal language have to date been predominantly methodological in nature. Addressing this perennial problem, the elaborated experimental paradigm presented here has been applied to ants, and can be extended to other social species of animals that have the need to memorize and relay complex ℓ́ℓmessagesℓ́ℓ. Accordingly, the method opens exciting new dimensions in the study of natural communications in the wild.- Resumé vydavatel