Overview

Why Study Animal Communication?

• Do animals communicate?
• Diversity and principles

Cues, Signals, and Signal Evolution

• Cues
• Signals
• Signal evolution

Principles and Animal Communication

Principles of Evolutionary Biology

Classifying Communication Systems

• Classifying by preadaptation, modality, and medium
• Classifying by informational focus
• Classification by honesty guarantees
• Classification by context
• Cross-classifications

The Signaling Sequence