I am gradually listing examples of the print sources I used for the original book chapters, under the original chapter names. These all date from 1995 or earlier, but may serve as a starting point for research. More recent sources can be found in the News section and in sidebars within ACP sections. A Google search or a Google Scholar search should be a big help in finding more up-to-date references.
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Introduction
An Introduction to Language, 4th edition, Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman, 1998, Holt, Rinehart, Winston
Psychology, Henry Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania, 1981, W.W. Norton & Company
Cephalopods
Cephalopod Behavior, Roger T. Hanlon, John B. Messenger, 1995, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 6 “Reproductive Behavior”
“Cognition in Cephalopods,” Jennifer A. Mather, Advances in the Study of Behavior, 24, 316-353, 1995
Social Insects: Honeybee Dances
Bees, Their Vision, Chemical Senses and Language, Karl von Frisch, 1950, Great Seal Books, Cornell University Press
Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a Language among Bees, Adrian M. Wenner, Patrick Wells, 1990, Columbia University Press
“The transfer of information in the dance language of honeybees: progress and problems,” Axel Michelsen, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 173 135-141, 1993
“Learning by Instinct,” James L. Gould and Peter Marler, Scientific American, January, 1987
"Attendants and followers of honey bee waggle dances," Janko Božič, T. Valentinčič, Journal of Apicultural Research, 30 125-131, 1991
“Recruitment Success in Attenders and Followers of the Waggle Dance, Janko Bozˇicˇ, Proceedings of the American Bee Research Conference, December 1993
“How Honeybees Perceive the Information of the Dance Language,” Claudia Dreller, W.H. Kirchner, Naturwissenschaften, 80 319-321, 1993
Other Insects
The Physiology of Mosquitoes, A.N. Clements, Macmillan, 1963
“The Cricket’s Tragedy,” Discover, March, 1993
“Singing Under Pressure: Phonotactic Parasitoid Flies in Hawaiian Cricket Hosts,” Marlene Zuk, Field Notes, 10 477-484, 1994
“Comparison of acoustical signals in Maculinea butterfly caterpillars and their obligate host Myrmica ants,” P.J. Devries, R.B. Cocroft, J. Thomas, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 49 229-238, 1993
“Call Production by Myrmecophilous Riodinid and Lycaenid Butterfly Caterpillars (Lepidoptera): Morphological, Acoustical, Functional, and Evolutionary Patterns,” P.J. Devries, American Museum Novitates, 1991
“The use of larval morphology and drumming in Plecoptera systematics, and further studies of drumming behavior,” K.W. Stewart, D. D. Zeigler, Annals of Limnology, 20 1-2, 1984
“The Language of Stoneflies,” Kenneth W. Stewart, S.W. Szczytko, B.P. Stark, BioScience, February, 1983
“Male Search Behavior of the Stonefly, Pteronarcella badia (Hagen) (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae), in Relation to Drumming, John C. Abbot, Kenneth W. Stewart, Journal of Insect Behavior, 1993
Spiders
“I Am Not Lunch. I Am Your Mate,” Discover, October 1994 p 17
“Eight-legged Tricksters,” Robert R. Jackson, BioScience, September 1992
“Communication in spiders,” George W. Uetz, Gail E. Stratton, Endeavour. New Series, Volume 7, Number 1, 1983
“A Very Mini-Series,” Discover, April 1991, p 10
“Signal efficacy and the evolution of male dimorphism in the jumping spider, Maevia inclemens,” David L. Clark, George W. Uetz, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 90 11954-11957, December 1993
“Transmission of a Female Sex Pheremone Thwarted by Males in the Spider Linyphia litigiosa (Linyphiidae),” Paul J. Watson, Science, 233 219-221, July 11, 1986
“Dancing in the Dome,” Paul J. Watson, Natural History, March, 1995
Fish
“The Ecology, Courtship, and Mating of Gymnotiform Electric Fish,” Mary Hagedorn, in Electroreception, Theodore H. Bullock, Walter Heiligenberg, 1986, John Wiley & Sons
“Behavior of Mormyridae,” Carl D. Hopkins, in Electroreception, Theodore H. Bullock, Walter Heiligenberg, 1986, John Wiley & Sons
“The neuronal basis of communication and orientation in the weakly electric fish, Eigenmannia. I. Communication behavior, or: Seeking a conspecific’s response.” Walter Metzner, Svenja Viete, Naturwissenschaften 83 6-, 1996
“From brains to behaviour: hormonal cascades and alternative mating tactics in teleost fishes,” Andrew H. Bass, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 3 181-186, 1993
“Alternative Male Spawning Tactics and Acoustic Signals in the Plainfin Midshipman Fish Porichthys notatus Girard (Teleostei, Batrachoididae),” Richard K. Brantley, Andrew H. Bass, Ethology, 96 213-232, 1994
“Sounds from the Intertidal Zone: Vocalizing Fish,” Andrew H. Bass, BioScience, April, 1990
Frogs
“Female Choice in Bufo americanus: Effects of Dominant Frequency and Call Order,” Richard D. Howard, Joseph G. Palmer, Copeia, No 1, 1995
“Vocal Interactions in Bufo woodhousii fowleri,” Mac F. Given, Journal of Herpetology, 27 447-452, 1993
“Male response to female vocalizations in the carpenter frog, Rana virgatipes,” Mac F. Given, Animal Behavior 46 1139-1149, 1993
Birds
“Repertoire matching between neighbouring song sparrows,” Michael D. Beecher, Philip K. Stoddard, S. Elizabeth Campbell, Cynthia L. Horning, Animal Behaviour, 51 917-923, 1996
“Correlation of song learning and territory establishment strategies in the song sparrow," Michael D. Beecher, S. Elizabeth Campbell, Philip K. Stoddard, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 91 1450-1454, 1994
“Ontogeny of Chick Responses to Maternal FoodCalls in the Burmese Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus spadiceus), Christopher A. Moffatt, Jerry A. Hogan, Journal of Comparative Psychology, 106 92-96, 1992
“Why Do Bowerbirds Build Bowers?,” Gerald Borgia, American Scientist, 83 542-547, 1995
“Some Cognitive Capacities of an African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus),” Irene Maxine Pepperberg, Advances in the Study of Behavior Vol. 14. Many more Pepperberg publications
Cetaceans
Dolphin Societies, Discoveries and Puzzles, Karen Pryor, Kenneth S. Norris, eds., University of California Press, 1991
”An optical telemetry device to identify which dolphin produces a sound,” Peter Tyack, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 78 1892-1895, 1985
“Whistle repertories of two bottlenosed dolphins, Tursiops truncatus: mimicry of signature whistles?,” Peter Tyack, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 18 251-257, 1986
“Human interactions with free-ranging and captive bottlenose dolphins,” Toni G. Frohoff, Jane M. Packard, Anthrozoös, 8 44-54, 1995
“Computer modeling of acoustic beam formation in Delphinus delphus, James L. Aroyan, Ted W. Cranford, Joel Kent, Kenneth S. Norris, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 92 2539-2545, 1992
“These Dolphins Aren’t Just Whistling in the Dark,” Peter L. Tyack, Laela S. Sayigh, Oceanus, 32 80-83, 1989
“Representational and Cenceptual Skills of Dolphins,” Louis M. Herman, Adam A. Pack, Palmer Morrel-Samuels, in Language and Communication: Comparative Perspectives, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993
“Impossible! Dolphins seem to hear through their jaws and ‘talk’ through their foreheads,” Karen Schmidt, Science Notes, Spring 1991
Please e-mail if you want sources for chapters I haven’t listed yet.
The Language of Animals was published in the US by Henry Holt (1996), in Australia by Allen and Unwin (1996), in German by dtv (1997) and in Spanish by Omega (1997). Cover photo by Art Wolfe
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