Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.