Essay on Contemporary Issues in Ethology: Variation among Mammalian Alarm Call Systems and the Problem of Meaning in Animal Signals

By Joseph M. Macedonia, C. Evans. 2010

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Social Psychology

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The contribution of source–filter theory to mammal vocal communication research (2010, background): “Functionally referential calls, at least in some primate species, appear to evolve along a continuum whereby purely reflexive/affective calls come under more volitional control (Macedonia & Evans, 1993; Evans, 1997).”
Food-associated vocalizations in mammals and birds: what do these calls really mean? (2012, background): “For instance, ravens produce both short ‘who’ and long ‘haa’ yells during feeding and their differential usage is relative to food availability (Bugnyar et al. ions in mammals and birds: what do these calls really mean?, Animal Table 1 Summary of the results of studies of food-associated calls in ma”
Antipredator calls of tufted titmice and interspecific transfer of encoded threat information (2012, background): “If in the second experiment respondents who only hear the calls given to predators also produce unique and distinctive responses, then this is termed ‘‘situational (perception) specificity’’ (H2; Evans et al. 1993; Macedonia and Evans 1993).”
On the Meaning of Alarm Calls: A Review of Functional Reference in Avian Alarm Calling (2013, background): “Fifteen years after his thorough review of referential signalling, Evans’ comment still stands, in part because the detailed framework developed by Evans and his co-workers (1997; Macedonia & Evans 1993) is often unevenly applied (Leavesley & Magrath 2005).”
The central importance of information in studies of animal communication. (2010, background): “Macedonia & Evans (1993) discuss the evolution of alarm call systems that encode different types of information.”
What do animal signals mean (2009, background): “The difference is that more recent work on signal meaning is now conducted under the banner of a modified theoretical construct: ‘functional reference’ (Marler et al. 1992; Macedonia & Evans 1993; Evans 1997; Furer & Manser 2009).”