What do animal signals mean

By Drew Rendall, M. Owren, Michael J. Ryan. 2009

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Sensory Systems, Social Psychology

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Herbivore intoxication as a potential primary function of an inducible volatile plant signal (2016, background): “As manipulation of a receiver is a form of communication (Rendall et al. 2009), indole may 378 already have functioned as an inter-specific signal at this point.”
Production and perception of situationally variable alarm calls in wild tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella nigritus) (2010, background): “Potentially “deceptive” uses of calls should be explicitly considered when examining context specificity of production, as a low degree of context specificity may be favored when callers benefit by influencing receiver behavior in a similar way across a range of contexts (see Rendall et al. 2009 ).”
Usage and comprehension of manual gestures in wild chimpanzees (2012, background): “However, a recipient may derive meaning from another’s behaviour and the context in which it is used, even if a signaller did not intend to provide that or any othermeaning (Seyfarth & Cheney 2003; Rendall et al. 2009).”
The alarm call system of wild black-fronted titi monkeys, Callicebus nigrifrons (2012, background): “…responses in recipients, researchers typically conclude that the utterance conveys something about the event experienced by the caller, although the nature of this experience has remained controversial (e.g., Seyfarth et al. 1980b; Zuberbühler et al. 1997; Zuberbühler 2001; Rendall et al. 2009).”
Food-associated vocalizations in mammals and birds: what do these calls really mean? (2012, background): “A key question in the animal communication literature concerns whether animal signals convey information to receivers about objects or events in the external world (Seyfarth & Cheney 2003; Seyfarth et al. 2010; but see Rendall et al. 2009).”
On the Meaning of Alarm Calls: A Review of Functional Reference in Avian Alarm Calling (2013, background): “…sounds reflect mental representations of external objects, is unknown; thus, the term ‘functional reference’ is used, not without controversy (see Rendall et al. 2009; Scarantino 2010; Townsend & Manser 2013; see also Wheeler & Fischer 2012), to convey the idea that some animal signals…”
The central importance of information in studies of animal communication. (2010, background): “Both Owings &Morton (1998) and Rendall et al. (2009) object to the ways in which scientists studying animal communication have borrowed the term information from linguistics.”
Semantic communication in birds: evidence from field research over the past two decades (2016, background): “…signals seem to convey information about the environmental entities of the senders beyond their internal states, in most cases, it remains controversial whether such communication can be considered an evolutionary precursor of linguistic reference (Rendall et al. 2009; Wheeler and Fischer 2012).”