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| | CONK! Encyclopedia: Language |
 | | Some researchers argue that a continuum exists among the communication methods of all social animals, pointing to the fundamental requirements of group behaviour and the existence of ' mirror cells ' in primates. | | | Some researchers argue that there are significant differences separating human language from the communication of other animals, and that the underlying principles are not related. | | | While the term animal languages is widely used, most researchers agree that they are not as complex or expressive as human language ; a more accurate term is animal communication. |
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http://www.conk.com/search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Language
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| | The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - animal cognition |
| | Keywords: animal cognition • autopoiesis • biosemiotics • cognitive biology • communication • cybersemiotics • ethology &; sign games • signification. | | | Keywords: animal cognition • language • philosophy of biology • psychology of language. | | | Allen, C. Assessing animal cognition: Ethological and philosophical perspectives. |
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http://www.kli.ac.at/theorylab/Keyword/A/AnimalCogn.html
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| | General Symbol Machines: The First Stage in the Evolution of Symbolic Communication by Thomas E. Dickins |
| | Symbols have distinctive properties that are not seen in other animal communication systems, and as a consequence, require an evolutionary explanation of their own. | | | Communication will be defined, in line with the common view from behavioural ecology (see Hauser, 1996), as the transfer of information from an actor to a reactor, such that the behavior of the reactor is changed. | | | The transition across the symbolic threshold is the next stage and this transition is, in Deaconâs view, the establishment of relationships between indexicals, in a similar fashion to that in which indexicals are constituted by relationships between icons. |
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http://human-nature.com/ep/articles/ep01192209.html
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| | GFP BUNNY |
| | Transgenic art is a firm rejection of this view and a reminder that communication and interaction between sentient and nonsentient actants lies at the core of what we call life. | | | Transgenic art acknowledges the human role in rabbit evolution as a natural element, as a chapter in the natural history of both humans and rabbits, for domestication is always a bidirectional experience. | | | Transgenic art, by contrast, offers a concept of aesthetics that emphasizes the social rather than the formal aspects of life and biodiversity, that challenges notions of genetic purity, that incorporates precise work at the genomic level, and that reveals the fluidity of the concept of species in an ever increasingly transgenic social context. |
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http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html
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| | Griffin/Allen/Bekoff Combined Cognitive Ethology Bibliography |
| | Cognitive ethology and the intentionality of animal behavior. | | | Bekoff, M. Cognitive ethology and the explanation of nonhuman animal behavior. | | | Social communication in canids: Evidence for the evolution of a stereotyped mammalian display. |
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http://grimpeur.tamu.edu/~colin/Animals/biblio-combined.html
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| | Animal Cognition 1999 |
| | Since we cannot normally understand or communicate directly with most other species has with animals in the same way that we communicate with other people, humans have developed three major ways of working with animals for an better understanding of their mental processes: (1) Ethological studies, (2) Behavioral studies, and (3) Interspecific communication. | | | Animal Cognition is the science of how animals learn and communicate. | | | This site considers some major strands in the history of approaches to the study of animal behavior and cognition. |
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http://www.peace.saumag.edu/faculty/kardas/courses/CS/Student%20Pages/Animal%20Cognition/Animal%20Cognition.html
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| | COGNITIVE SCIENCE: ON ANIMAL COGNITION |
| | Griffin postulated, "Insofar as animals have conscious experiences, this is a significant fact about their nature and their lives." Animal communication particularly impressed Griffin as implying animal consciousness. | | | Griffin argued that the complexity of animal behavior implies conscious beliefs and desires, and that an anthropomorphic explanation can be more parsimonious than one built solely on behavioral laws. | | | 3) This rejection of anthropomorphism was one of the few founding principles of behaviorism that survived the rise of ethological and cognitive approaches to studying animal behavior. |
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http://scienceweek.com/2004/sa040820-4.htm
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| | Colloquium--March 1, 1996 |
| | Man is by nature a social animal, and an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. | | | Belonging Groups provide the opportunity for contact and relationships with other individuals in an organized social network; gregariousness, other-oriented, social, belongingness; promotes general communication and social interaction among people; the group might be an organized one. | | | Aristotle's famous quote suggests that we are, by our vary nature, herd animals: driven by an unrecognized, pervasive, biological predisposition to join together with other members of our species. |
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http://www.has.vcu.edu/psy/faculty/fors/function.html
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| | Life Paths, Spirit of Spider, Animal Totems & Earth Medicine |
| | Another area in which Spider has been recognized as being a Creative Force, is in communication of all forms. | | | For the parent who has a young spider, all effort must be taken to encourage the child to develop their own individuality. | | | Dreams are also an important area of the Spider's life and they should pay special attention to their dreams. |
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http://wolfs_moon.tripod.com/SpiderTotem.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Readings in Animal Cognition |
| | Selections are grouped in five sections: Perspectives on Animal Cognition; Cognitive and Evolutionary Explanations; Recognition, Choice, Vigilance, and Play; Communication and Language; and Animal Minds. | | | Taken togther the essays provide the nucleus for an introductory course in animal cognition (cognitive ethology and comparative psychology), philosophy of biology, or philosophy of mind. | | | Seventeen essays are reprinted from the authors much cited two-volume collection, Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Animal Behavior. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/026252208X
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| | Animal Psychology |
| | Research with Animals in Psychology A defense of animal research from the American Psychological Association | | | Psychology, Culture and Evolution Evolutionary issues in the psychology of art, communication, and consciousness | | | An Animal Trainer's Guide to Operant and Classical Conditioning Using positive reinforcement and classical conditioning to train animals |
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http://www.psychwww.com/resource/bytopic/animal.html
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| | Our pet's sexuality: breeding and mounting. |
| | For dogs mounting behavior is not always sexual; often it is a form of communication between dogs, a way to assert authority or dominance, and even a way to get attention from their owners or other humans. | | | The second reason is the large numbers of animals currently in our shelters and abandoned on the streets. | | | Hip (and elbow) certification is through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA); their website is http://www.offa.org. |
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http://www.orangevillavet.com/articles/breeding.htm
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| | Psychology : Research |
| | Uetz, G.W. and Taylor P.W. (2002) Developmental instability and animal communication - Fluctuating asymmetry as a signal and as an influence on the signaling process. | | | Also of underlying interest are the philosophical issues involved in attempting to relate animal neurophysiology to human perception and to understand consciousness and awareness. | | | Studies explore the structure and function of animal signals, both in the lab and under natural conditions. |
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http://www.psy.mq.edu.au/research.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Animal Cognition: The Mental Lives of Animals |
| | Covering a wide range of key topics, from reasoning and communication to sensation and complex problem solving, this text presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary research on animal cognition. | | | A wide range of home study courses in animal behaviour, leading to recognised diplomas. | | | Buy Animal Cognition: The Mental Lives of Animals with Social Psychology: Experimental and Critical Appro... |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0333923960
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| | Library |
| | A major aim of the journal is to improve communication among all researchers of bird behavior. | | | Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior | | | University of Massachusetts - Veternary and Animal Sciencesl |
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http://www.berkshirecc.edu/library/sciences_animal.html
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| | Symbolic communication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Examples of this are modern communication technology as also exchange of information amongst animals. | | | In animal societies, symbolic communication helps one understand how they live in cooperating groups. | | | The behavior of weaver ant workers has been carefully studied and it has been found that communicative gestures with respect to members of the same colony and intruders is different. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_communication
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| | 654-303 Experimental Animal Behaviour |
| | Topics include natural and sexual selection; the evolution of sex and of sex allocation; the underlying neural mechanisms of animal behaviour (including motor, sensory and central nervous systems); foraging, competitive, mating and parental behaviour; learning; communication; and comparative social behaviour. | | | In particular, it highlights the relevance of evolutionary theory to ultimate explanations of animal behaviour and other life-history characteristics. | | | Experiments involving the use of animals are an essential part of this subject; exemption is not possible. |
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http://www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/2000/subjects/654-303.html
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| | Non-verbal Communication - Cambridge University Press |
| | The subject has been approached from different angles by psychologists studying the relevance of non-verbal communication to interpersonal relationships, by anthropologists interested in how these processes help to integrate societies, and by ethologists extrapolating the results of animal studies to human behaviour. | | | Non-verbal Communication lacks nothing of scholarship for the student of behaviour, but at the same time it is a book of relevance to the whole range of our activity. | | | The scope of the volume ranges from formal analysis of the communication process by an information theorist (Professor Mackay) and by a linguist (Professor Lyons), to accounts of the role of expression in the theatre (Dr Jonathan Miller) and in the visual arts (Professor Gombrich). |
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| | Cued and Detached Representations in Animal Cognition |
| | This paper analyzes the function of certain aspects of cognition, like planning, deceiving, self-awareness, and communication. | | | The inner environment of an animal is defined as the collection of all detached representations. | | | Detached representations stand for objects or events that are neither present in the situation nor triggered by some recent situation. |
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http://lucs.fil.lu.se/Abstracts/LUCS_Studies/LUCS38.html
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| | B551: Representation 3 |
| | The communication system of an animal in a children's story is speech. | | | The mode of behavior of an animal in a children's story is rational. | | | Charlotte is an animal in a children's story. |
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http://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/b551/Notes/representation3.html
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| | Animal Cognition |
| | The Expressions of Emotion in Man and in Animals | | | Humans can discuss their cognitions with each other, but humans cannot do so with animals. | | | The work of the early ethologists, especially von Frisch's work with honeybee communication was of great importance because it showed how anthropomorphising could be avoided. |
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http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/kardas/Courses/CS/Lectures/AnimalCognition.html
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| | Plum Island Animal Disease Center |
| | Plum Island, N.Y., Sept. 5, 2000— The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) has created a forum group—for public affairs and safety and emergency preparedness, to provide new conduits for communication with the center’s neighbors. | | | Plum Island is where the USDA operates one of the world's top laboratories for the study of infectious animal diseases. | | | The Plum Island Animal Disease Center is a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facility designed and constructed to work with the most dangerous animal diseases in the world, such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Rinderpest, and African swine fever. |
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http://cryptome.sabotage.org/piadc.htm
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| | Internet geek is a social animal |
| | He said the internet increases communication skills and leads to more social ties. | | | While various studies have suggested that people who spend time online are more vulnerable to unhappiness and loneliness, Hampton said that this was because they were using the internet as a way of reaching out. | | | The perception of the type of person who spends all their time online as a Billy-No-Mates is bogus, according to an expert in cyber-sociology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). |
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http://www.vnunet.com/articles/print/2118951
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| | NATURE. A Conversation With Koko PBS |
| | NATURE's A CONVERSATION WITH KOKO explores inter-species communication by focusing on the groundbreaking work of The Gorilla Foundation, where one animal resident has been speaking in sign language for more than 25 years. | | | In doing so, she has helped overturn age-old preconceptions about the limits of animal intelligence, expressing thoughts and emotions of astonishing sophistication. | | | At The Gorilla Foundation in mountainous Woodside, California, where Koko has lived most of her life with her equally expressive male gorilla companion, Michael, researchers are working to uncover and better understand primate capabilities that once were thought to be exclusively human. |
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| | Steve's place - Cell Biology |
| | Animal cells lack a wall, but may have a glycocalyx, which is a layer of thickened glycoproteins surrounding them and connecting them to the extracellular matrix. | | | The fused organelles produced are the cells disposal system, and are called lysosomes. | | | Histamine causes the symptoms of allergy and inflammation, which allows more immune cells to get to the affected site. |
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http://www.steve.gb.com/science/cell_biology.html
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| | Symposium on Animal Cognition |
| | 1994 Cognitive Science Conference Symposium on Animal Cognition will address issues in animal reasoning, animal communication, the possibility of animal language, and comparative animal-human studies. | | | The topic of this year's symposium was the relevance of animal cognition to human cognition. | | | Speakers at the Symposium will also present recent work in the field of animal cognition. |
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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/students/centaur/animalcog.html
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| | Science Matters |
| | However, we are not alone in the world and to understand how other sophisticated animal societies, namely the highly social bees, perceive and communicate information about their world may enable us to understand some of the possibilities that exist for the evolution of symbolic communication. | | | At one level, I believe that it appeals to anyone who has ever wondered what animals may be thinking and what they may be communicating. | | | By decoding the symbolic communication of some species, we will also be able to learn where food sources are located, how their foraging range changes seasonally. |
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| | Animal Sciences/Pre-Vet Program - Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences Department |
| | Students receive training in both basic and applied agricultural systems, as well as in animal sciences. | | | The animal science program focuses on pre-veterinary training with emphasis on swine, sheep, beef and dairy cattle, and pond aquaculture production and management systems. | | | Other skills of critical importance are computer proficiency, written and oral communication, problem solving, and ability to build effective interpersonal relationships. |
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http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/hnfas/Academic/ug_as_menu.htm
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| | The Seanbaby Probe - Exploding Cow |
| | Karate attacks or just words about karate attacks are a cleaner and faster means of communication than painting floating eyeballs with your body fluids ever will be. | | | That means we need to always wear hard hats even when we're not fucking, or else construct floating cities that would bustle in the sky high above the exploding animals. | | | I know we don't have the budget for something like that, but we could at least take all the bullshit National Endowment for the Arts money away from the women painting with their maxi pads and give it to traveling theatre groups for explosives and beef. |
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http://www.seanbaby.com/news/cow2.htm
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