Animal communication
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Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers. Information may be sent intentionally, as in a courtship display, or unintentionally, as in the transfer of scent from predator to prey. Information may be transferred to an "audience" of several receivers. Animal communication is a rapidly growing area of study in disciplines including animal behavior, sociology, neurology and animal cognition. Many aspects of animal behavior, such as symbolic name use, emotional expression, learning and sexual behavior, are being understood in new ways.
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See also
- Animal consciousness
- Anthrozoology (human–animal studies)
- Biocommunication
- Biosemiotics
- Body language
- Dear enemy effect and Nasty neighbour effect
- Deception in animals
- Degeneracy (biology)
- Emotion in animals
- Forms of activity and interpersonal relations
- Human–animal communication
- International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
- Origin of language
- Origin of speech
- Sir Philip Sidney game
- Talking animal
- Threat display
- Zoomusicology
- Zoosemiotics
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