Communication Communication What is Communication An action on
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Communication
Communication • What is Communication? – An action on the part of one organism that alters the probability pattern of behavior in another organism in a fashion adaptive to either one or both of the participants (Wilson 1975)
Communication (Wiley 1983)
Communication (Wiley 1983) • True Communication – Both Sender and Receiver benefit • Manipulation – Sender benefits / Receiver is unaffected or harmed • Eavesdropping – Sender is unaffected or harmed / Receiver benefits • Ignoring – neither Sender or Receiver is harmed
Alarm Calls Vocalizations - Vervet Monkeys Different Calls Snake = Chutter Leopard = Barking Eagle = Cough
How do they Signal? Discrete ear position Pointed Up – greeting Laid back - threat Graded Mouth Closed – mild Open – More intense
Pseudopenis of the Female Spotted Hyena
Pseudopenis of the Female Spotted Hyena
Proximate Causes • Stephan J. Gould – Pseudopenis due to proximate cause • High levels of androgen during development – Suggests proximate cause outweighs adaptive significance (ultimate cause)
Other Causes • John Alcock – Suggests proximate cause may not be as strong a Gould suggests – Contends Gould is against Sociobiology – Adaptationist Hypothesis • (Ultimate Cause)
Pseudopenis of the Female Spotted Hyena
Dominance of the Female Spotted Hyena • Adaptive Behavior – more androgen / more aggression • By-product is pseudopenis
Honest Signals
Honest Signal • How much food do I need? • Brood Parasites (European Cuckoo) – Increase amount of food by tricking parents
Illegitimate Receivers • Tungara Frog – Whine-chuck – Whine only
Illegitimate receivers • Mobbing Call Attract other mobbers if hawk is perched • Seet Call Warning sound if hawk is in the air • doesn’t travel as far • Range of sound hard for hawk to hear
Illegitimate Signalers • Femme fatales
Illegitimate Signalers • Angler Fish
Solving Problems – Group Foraging • Food Bonanzas – Yell for others
Solving Problems – Group Foraging Honeybees – Round Dance – Sickle Dance – Waggle Dance
Solving Problems – Group Foraging Ants – Recruitment Pheromones – Stridulating
Solving Problems – How to Secure a Mate • Bird Song – Cowbird
Solving Problems – How to Secure a Mate • Bird Song Blackbirds
Solving Problems – Warn Others about Predators • Meerkats
Solving Problems – Warn Others about Predators • Deception – Low ranking Males
Solving Problems – Warn Others about Predators • Deception – Barn Swallows
Talking Animals • Nim Chimpsky – Talking Chimp
Talking Animals • Alex – Talking Parrot
Talking Animals • Koko – Talking Gorilla
- Flash forward plot structure
- Plot diagram the lion and the mouse plot
- 5 stages of the plot
- Exposition in a rose for emily
- Suit the action to the word the word to the action meaning
- Research action communication evaluation
- Parallel serial port
- What is oral communication and written communication
- Parallel transmission example
- Types of nonverbal communication chronemics
- Difference between oral and written communication
- Serial communication vs parallel communication
- Grittleton house in 2 action
- Situation, task, action, result examples
- Gender action plan world bank
- Gender action plan world bank
- What is the exposition of merchant of venice
- Wellness recovery action plan examples
- Action research vs case study
- Taking informed action
- En action 5 toetsen
- Counselling action plan
- Social action examples
- Water action platform
- Action recipe format
- Vientiane action programme
- Show action or state of being
- Action or state of being
- Linking verbs
- Action verbs and linking verbs