In creatures as different as crickets and scorpions, mole rats and
elephants, there exists an overlooked channel of communication:
signals transmitted as vibrations through a solid substrate. Peggy
Hill summarizes a generation of groundbreaking work by scientists
around the world on this long understudied form of animal
communication.
Beginning in the 1970s, Hill explains, powerful computers and
listening devices allowed scientists to record and interpret
vibrational signals. Whether the medium is the sunbaked savannah or
the stem of a plant, vibrations can be passed along from an animal
to a potential mate, or intercepted by a predator on the prowl.
Vibration appears to be an ancient means of communication,
widespread in both invertebrate and vertebrate taxa. Hill
synthesizes in this book a flowering of research, field studies
documenting vibrational signals in the wild, and the laboratory
experiments that answered such questions as what adaptations
allowed animals to send and receive signals, how they use signals
in different contexts, and how vibration as a channel might have
evolved.
"Vibrational Communication in Animals" promises to become a
foundational text for the next generation of researchers putting an
ear to the ground.
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