By
Peter Marler, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior, University of California Davis, U.S.A.
Hans Slabbekoorn, The Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Description
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.
Audience:
Students and researchers in behavioral and evolutionary biology, ornithology, neuroscience and neuroethology
