LEADER 02973oam 22005894a 450 001 9910524865603321 005 20230621135407.0 010 $a0-253-05073-1 035 $a(CKB)5600000000001678 035 $a(OCoLC)1259584557 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse92591 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88297 035 $a(oapen)doab88297 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000001678 100 $a20101109d1977 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOptical Signals$eAnimal Communication and Light /$fJack P. Hailman 210 $cIndiana University Press$d1977 210 1$aBloomington :$cIndiana University Press,$d1977. 210 4$dİ1977. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource xix, 362 pages) : $cillustrations 330 $aWhy do visual signals have the characteristics that they do? Why do animals (including man) gesture, posture, and move in communicative fashions? Why are animals colored and patterned in particular ways? Optical Signals is the first attempt to answer these and related questions. After presenting a synthetic framework of social communication, ethology, mathematical information theory, and semiotics, Hailman explains the relevant background: considerations of the physics of light that carry information from sender to receiver, and properties that limit the receiver's ability to get and send information encoded in light. Next Hailman puts together data from different disciplines in order to discover the "design characteristics" of optical signals. The major part of the book concerns these design characteristics and factors that influence them: behavioral patterns and coloration that look like visual signals but are not, principles of visual deception, and the way in which the physical and biological environment structures the characteristics of signals. Lastly, the book considers how the message being transmitted influences the design of the signal itself. 606 $aTiere$2swd 606 $aOptisches Signal$2swd 606 $aKommunikation$2swd 606 $aAnimals$xColor$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00809478 606 $aAnimal communication$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00809125 606 $aAnimaux$xCouleur 606 $aCommunication animale 606 $aAnimals$xColor 606 $aAnimal communication 608 $aElectronic books. 615 00$aTiere. 615 00$aOptisches Signal. 615 00$aKommunikation. 615 0$aAnimals$xColor. 615 0$aAnimal communication. 615 0$aAnimaux$xCouleur. 615 0$aCommunication animale. 615 0$aAnimals$xColor. 615 0$aAnimal communication. 700 $aHailman$b Jack Parker$f1936-$082745 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524865603321 996 $aOptical Signals$92642844 997 $aUNINA