Animal Communication

Communication in General

1. Sensory Systems and Communication.
2. Insect Communication. Insect Sense Organs are here.
3. C. E. Shannon: A Mathematical Theory of Communication
4. Entropy in Information and Coding Theory; Entropy on the Web
5. A short course on information theory
6. Information Theory Resources; also of interest.... Information Theory and Molecular Biology
7. Probability Theory   (especially, Jaynes' book on the Logic of Science)
8. Primate Neuroscience Laboratory

Pheromones

1. What are Pheromones? How Exactly do They Work? etc. Read more here.
2. Read "About pheromones" and Mating strategies of butterflies (including pheromones).
3. A comparison of the Vomeronasal organ in humans and other animals is found here. Read this too.
4. Analysis of Chemical Systems by Nervous Systems
5. The Chemoreception Web
6. The Connection: What the Nose Knows.
7. Brain Briefings: Pheromones
8. Pheromone Triples Women's Sexual Success
9. Ant Trail Movie

Vibration

1. The dance language of bees (look here too!)
2. Dances with Bees
3. Vibrations in the webs of spiders (spider lab)
4. Scorpion vibration sensing during prey capture

Sound

1. Tricks to stretch the information barrier
2. The Physics of Sound More on sound spectrographs is here.
3. Birdsong Learning. Check out the interaction between innate and learned mechanisms here.
4. Listen to some interesting animal sounds at the Bioacoustics Page.
5. Bird song recordings. Listen here. Another good site is here.
6. Library of Natural Sounds (Birds)
7. Audubon's Multimedia Birds of America.
8. Alligator vocalizations (more is here)
9. Owls use sound to hunt lemmings under the snow.
10. Animal Songs and Sounds
11. Songs of Crickets and Katydids of Japan
12. Netvet Animal Sounds Links
13. Animal Sounds are here (good site) New and IMPROVED site here (Also good)
14. Croc communication
15. Sounds of North American Frogs
16. Some Bat stuff is here More is here and here
17. Identification of Bat Echolocation Calls Using a Decision Tree Classification System
18. Sound Spectrograms 4 U

Visual

1. Cool Cephalopod Flicks
2. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Charley Darwin). Read the whole text!
3. 

Electric

1. Electrosensory System of Weakly Electric Fish
2. Electroreception in weakly-electric fish
3. Electric organ discharge
4. Searching by a hammerhead shark

Misc.

1. Communication goes multimodal.
2. Language use by chimpanzees.
3. Signal to Noise Ratio in Animal Communication
4. Polarized Light and Communication in Octopus
5. The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Shannon)
6. Information Theory Course
7. The ethology and sociobiology of animal communication
8. Star nose mole hunting by touch.
9. Evolved Human Behavior Patterns.
10. The Evolution of human behavior.
11. Biological Basis of Human Behavior
12. Say it with Bowers
13. Cool Cephalopod Vids