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• Title:Nature's music : the science of birdsong / editors, Peter Marler, Hans Slabbekoorn.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Marler, Peter.
  Slabbekoorn, Hans Willem, 1961-
  
• Published/Created:San Diego, Calif. : Elsevier Academic, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY audio-visualWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QL698.5 .N38 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:text + 2 cds
    
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QL698.5 .N38 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:text + 2 cds
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Birdsongs.
  Birds--Vocalization.
  Birds--Behavior.
  
• Genre/Form:Nature sounds.
  
• Description:xviii, 513 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. + 2 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
  
• Series:Online access with purchase: Elsevier (Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1995-2006)
  
• Summary:"Nature's Music brings together some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our undestanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds"--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [388]-457) and index.
  
• ISBN:0124730701
  
• Contents:Foreword : a tribute to the late Luis Felipe Baptista / Robert I. Bowman
  1. Science and birdsong : the good old days / Peter Marler
  2. Vocal fighting and flirting : the functions of birdsong / Sarah Collins
  3. Learning to sing / Henrike Hultsch and Dietmar Todt
  4. diversity and plasticity of bridsong / Don Kroodsma
  5. Bird calls : a cornucopia for communication / Peter Marler
  6. Singing in the wild : the ecology of bridsong / Hans Slabbekoorn
  7. Audition : can birds hear everything they sing? / Robert Dooling
  8. Brains and bridsong / Erich D. Jarvis
  9. How birds sing and why it matters / Roderick A. Suthers
  10. Birdsong and evolution / Carel Ten Cate
  11. Performance limits on birdsong / Jeffrey Podos and Stephen Nowicki
  12. Birdsong and conservation / Sandra L. L. Gaunt and D. Archibald McCallum
  13. Grey parrots : learning and using speech / Irene M. Pepperberg
  14. Singing, socializing, and the music effect / Meredith J. West, Andrew P. King and Michael H. Goldstein.