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View Ackers S. H. , Slobodchikoff C. N. (1999) Communication of stimulus size and shape in alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs . Ethology, 105, 149-162
Prairie dog ; Rodentia , Cynomys , gunnisoni
Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni) emit multiple-note alarm calls to terrestrial predators that vary in acoustic structure according to the eliciting stimulus

View Allen Traci , Clarke Jennifer A (2005) Social learning of food preferences by white-tailed ptarmigan chicks . Animal Behaviour, 70, 305-310
ptarmigan , white-tailed , Lagopus , eucurus
The social-learning function of a food call is to share information about resources with conspecifics.

View Arcadi Adam Clark (2000) Vocal responsiveness in male wild chimpanzees: implications for the evolution of language . Journal of Human Evolution, 39, 205-223
chimpanzee and bonobo
investigates whether wild chimpanzee vocal exchanges exhibit uniquely human conversational attributes

View Arcadi Adam Clark (2005) Language Evolution: What Do Chimpanzees Have to Say? . Current Biology, 15, R884-R886
Chimpanzee ; Primates , Pan , troglodytes
Comparative analyses of nonhuman primate vocalizations can shed light on the evolution of language’s special features.

View Arnold Kate , Pohlner Yvonne , Zuberbühler, Klaus (2008) A forest monkey’s alarm call series to predator models . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62, 1432-0762
Monkey , putty-nosed ; Primates , Cercopithecus , nictitans martini
Some non-human primates produce acoustically distinct alarm calls to different predators, such as eagles or leopards

View Arnold Kate , Zuberbühler Klaus (2008) Meaningful call combinations in a non-human primate . Current Biology, 18, R202-R203
Monkey , putty-nosed ; Primates , Cercopithecus , nictitans
...in this primate, meaning is encoded by call sequences, not individual calls.

View Arnold Kate , Zuberbühler Klaus (2006) The alarm-calling system of adult male putty-nosed monkeys, Cercopithecus nictitans martini. . Animal Behaviour, 72, 643-653
Monkey ; Primates , Cercopithecus , nictitans martini
individual calls did not qualify as vehicles of semantic content, these males produced structurally unique call sequences that provided sufficient information for receivers to select appropriate antipredator responses

View Arnold Kate , Zuberbühler Klaus (2006) Language evolution: semantic combinations in primate calls . Nature, 441, 303
Monkey , putty-nosed ; Primates , Cercopithecus , nictitans martini
non-human primates can combine calls into higher-order sequences that have a particular meaning.

View Au Whitlow W. L. , Andersen Lars N. , Rasmussen, A. René , Nachtigall Paul E. (1995) Neural network modeling of a dolphin's sonar discrimination . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 43-50
Dolphin
both time and frequency information were used to model the dolphin discrimination capabilities.

View Au Whitlow W. L. , Mobley Joseph , Burgess, William C. , Nachtigall Paul E. (2000) Seasonal and diurnal trends of chorusing humpback whales wintering in waters off western Maui . Marine Mammal Science, 16, 530-544
Whale , Humpback ; Cetacea , Megaptera , novaeangliae
humpback whale choruses during the 1998 humpback whale winter season in Hawaii

View Baalen Minus van , Jansen Vincent A.A. (2003) Common language or Tower of Babel? On the evolutionary dynamics of signals and their meanings . Proceedings of the Royal Society, 270, 69-76
evolution of communication strategies

View Bailey W. J. , Greenfield M. D. , Shelly, T. E. (1993) Transmission and perception of acoustic signaling in the desert clicker (Orthoptera: Acrididae). . Journal of Insect Behavior, 6, 141-154
Grasshopper , Desert Clicker ; Orthoptera , Ligurotettix , coquilletti
Males signal acoustically to each other as well as to searching females.

View Baker Myron C. , Becker April M. (2002) Mobbing calls of Black-capped Chickadees: effects of urgency on call production . Wilson Bulletin , 114, 510-517
Chickadee , Black-capped ; Passeriformes , Poecile , atricapilla
Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapilla) use their chick-a-dee call as a mobbing call

View Bayly K.L , Evans C.S. (2003) Dynamic changes in alarm call structure: a strategy for reducing conspicuousness to avian predators? . Behaviour, 130, 353-369
Birds
male fowl have adaptive plasticity in alarm call structure, allowing them to manage short-term predation risk while continuing to signal to companions.

View Beekman Madeleine , Doyen Laurent , Oldroyd, Benjamin P. (2005) Increase in dance imprecision with decreasing foraging distance in the honey bee Apis mellifera L. is partly explained by physical constraints . Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 191, 1107-1113
Bee , European Honey ; Hymenoptera , Apis , mellifera L.
Honey bee foragers communicate the direction and distance of both food sources and new nest sites to nest mates by means of a symbolic dance language.

View Bel’kovich V. M. , Kreichi S. A. (2004) Specific features of vowel-like signals of white whales . Acoustical Physics, 50, 288-294
Whale , White-Sea ; cetacea , Delphinapterus , leucas
The set of acoustic signals of White-Sea white whales comprises about 70 types of signals.

View Beran Michael J. (2004) Long-term retention of the differential values of Arabic numerals by chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes) . Animal Cognition, 7, 86-92
Chimpanzees ; Primates , Pan , troglodytes
provide an experimental demonstration of long-term retention of the differential values of Arabic numerals by chimpanzees

View Bergstrom Carl T. , Lachmann Michael (2001) Alarm calls as costly signals of antipredator vigilance: the watchful babbler game . Animal Behavior, 61, 535-543

Alarm calls may produce both positive and negative benefits.

View Bickerton Derek (2000) Resolving Discontinuity: A Minimalist Distinction between Human and Non-human Minds . American Zoologist, 40, 862–873
Human , Non-human ; Primates
...The only difference between human and non-human minds is that we can sustain longer and more complex trains of thought...

View Biesmeijer Jacobus Christiaan (2003) The occurrence and context of tremble dancing in free-foraging honey bees (Apis mellifera) . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 53, 411-416
Bee , European Honey ; Hymenoptera , Apis , mellifera
tremble dancing in honey bees

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