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.
Foreword: A tribute to the late Luis Felipe Baptista/ Robert I. Bowman -- Chapter 1. Science and birdsong: The good old days/ Peter Marler -- Chapter 2. Vocal fighting and flirting: The functions of birdsong/ Sarah Collins -- Chapter 3. Learning to sing/ Henrike Hultsch, Dietmar Todt -- Chapter 4. The diversity and plasticity of birdsong/ Don Kroodsma -- Chapter 5. Bird calls: A cornucopia for communication/ Peter Marler -- Chapter 6. Singing in the wild: The ecology of birdsong/ Hans Slabbekoorn -- Chapter 7. Audition: Can birds hear everything they sing?/ Robert Dooling -- Chapter 8. Brains and birdsong/ Erich D. Jarvis -- Chapter 9. How birds sing and why it matters/ Roderick A. Suthers -- Chapter 10. Birdsong and evolution/ Carel Ten Cate -- Chapter 11. Performance limits on birdsong/ Jeffrey Podos, Stephen Nowicki -- Chapter 12. Birdsong and conservation/ Sandra L.L. Gaunt, D. Archibald McCallum -- Chapter 13. Grey parrots: Learning and using speech/ Irene M. Pepperberg -- Chapter 14. Singing, socializing, and the music effect/ Meredith J. West, Andrew P. King, Michael H. Goldstein
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