Studying animal languages without translation : an insight from ants

• Main Author: Reznikova, Zh. I. (Author)
• Format: Electronic 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

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 linguistic capacities on the basis of measuring the ra...