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  title info:
    title: Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants
  name:
    name part: Reznikova, Zhanna.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 92 p. 25 illus., 15 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 rate of information transmission and the complexity of transmitted messages. Animals’ 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 “messages”. Accordingly, the method opens exciting new dimensions in the study of natural communications in the wild.
  table of contents: Communication, speech and language in human- and non-human animals. The complexity of communication systems and intelligence in animals -- Intelligent communication: can animals exchange meaningful messages? -- Cracking animals codes -- Direct dialogs with animals by means of intermediary languages -- Ants and Bits -- Why bits? Information Theory as a tool for studying natural communication systems -- Why ants? Reliable agents for information transmission -- Ants on the Binary Tree -- The entropy – based approach -- The Kolmogorov Complexity-based approach -- Ants can compress information -- Numerical competence in animals with an insight from ant “language” -- Criteria of numerical competence for comparative studies -- Quantitative judgments in animals -- Advanced numerical abilities -- Information Theory as a tool for studying wild arithmetic on the base of their own communications -- An insight from ant “language”: flexibility of communication as a basis for arithmetic skills.
  note: by Zhanna Reznikova.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Coding theory
  subject:
    topic: Animal physiology
  subject:
    topic: Animal models in research
  subject:
    topic: Invertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Neurobiology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Models
  subject:
    topic: Coding and Information Theory
  subject:
    topic: Invertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Neurobiology
  classification: QP82-82.2
  classification: 571.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319449180
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44918-0
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