Course: HCS 7372 - 001
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Room: GR 2.816 |
Semester: Fall 2000 | Class time: Tues 2:00-4:45 pm |
Office: GR 4.126 | Office Hours: Wed 2:00-3:00 pm |
Instructor: Dr. Peter Assmann | Tel: 972 / 883-2435 |
Email: assmann@utdallas.edu | Web: http://www.utdallas.edu/~assmann/ancom.html |
Course Description. Animal Communication is a graduate-level seminar course on animal behavior and communication processes. Animals use a variety of methods to communicate with each other, including visual gestures and displays, vocal calls and songs, chemical signals and odor trails. This course surveys the diverse forms of communication used throughout the animal kingdom, including insects, frogs, birds, bats, cetaceans, monkeys, apes and humans. We will consider the design features that characterize communication systems, and unique adaptations that are exploited in different environmental settings. Sensory and neural mechanisms that underlie the production and perception of communication signals will be studied, as well as the evolutionary and ecological forces that have shaped these systems in their natural environments.
Required Text:
Bradbury, J.W. and Vehrencamp, S.L. (1998). Principles of Animal Communication. Sinauer. |
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