Nature's Music

Peter R Marler

ISBN 10: 0124730701 / ISBN 13: 9780124730700

Published by Elsevier Science Nov 2004, 2004

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds. 504 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nature's Music
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Nov 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0124730701
• ISBN 13: 9780124730700
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 255W x 197H x 34D millimeters 255 millimeters width by 197 millimeters height by 34 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1412 grams

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Synopsis

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature’s Music brings together some of the world’s experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds.

Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds.

About the Author

By Professor Peter R. Marler and Dr. Hans Slabbekoorn