Communication in Fishes. Volumes 1 & 2
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Author(s): F. Ladich et al. (Eds)
Publisher: Science Publishers
ISBN: 1578084067
Format: hardback
880pp
Price: £81.20
Review Date: 04 December 2006
Review: The fact that fish can hear was only established in the 1920s. These books bring you up-to-date with virtually all the known features of communication in fishes, whether acoustic or chemical (Volume 1), or visual or electrical (Volume 2). Communication takes place when a signal produced by a signaller produces a change in behaviour of the receiver. The contributions to these books imply such interactions. Volume 1 looks at the wide diversity of sound-generating mechanisms that fish employ and how the signals are propagated and detected. Volume 2 examines visual communications – from evolution to development of signals and sensors and the effects of behaviour across phylogenetically disparate groups. Electric signal characteristics, evolutionary and ecological aspects of signal diversity, behavioural evidence, and the neuroethology of electrocommunication are all included.