Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants - Reznikova, Zhanna; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017)
Communication, speech and language in human- and non-human animals. The complexity of communication systems and intelligence in animals -- Intelligent communication: can animals exchange meaningful messages? -- Cracking animals codes -- Direct dialogs with animals by means of intermediary languages -- Ants and Bits -- Why bits? Information Theory as a tool for studying natural communication systems -- Why ants? Reliable agents for information transmission -- Ants on the Binary Tree -- The entropy - based approach -- The Kolmogorov Complexity-based approach -- Ants can compress information -- Numerical competence in animals with an insight from ant "language" -- Criteria of numerical competence for comparative studies -- Quantitative judgments in animals -- Advanced numerical abilities -- Information Theory as a tool for studying wild arithmetic on the base of their own communications -- An insight from ant "language": flexibility of communication as a basis for arithmetic skills.
Keywords: Animal physiology; Animal models in research; Coding theory; Information theory; Invertebrates; Neurobiology; Animal Physiology; Animal Models; Coding and Information Theory; Invertebrates; Neurobiology