"Animal Communication" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Communication between animals involving the giving off by one individual of some chemical or physical signal, that, on being received by another, influences its behavior.
| Descriptor ID |
D000819
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.113.055
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| Concept/Terms |
Animal Communication- Animal Communication
- Animal Communications
- Communication, Animal
- Communications, Animal
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Animal Communication" by people in Profiles.
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Are ape gestures like words? Outstanding issues in detecting similarities and differences between human language and ape gesture. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2022 09 26; 377(1860):20210301.
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Great ape gestures: intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals. Anim Cogn. 2019 Jul; 22(4):471.
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Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning. PLoS Biol. 2018 02; 16(2):e2004825.
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Great ape gestures: intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals. Anim Cogn. 2017 07; 20(4):755-769.
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Where have all the (ape) gestures gone? Psychon Bull Rev. 2017 02; 24(1):68-71.
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The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system. Anim Cogn. 2017 Mar; 20(2):171-177.
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Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2017 Aug; 92(3):1427-1433.
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The meanings of chimpanzee gestures. Curr Biol. 2014 Jul 21; 24(14):1596-1600.
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African elephants (Loxodonta africana) recognize visual attention from face and body orientation. Biol Lett. 2014 Jul; 10(7).
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Deictic gesturing in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)? Some possible cases. J Comp Psychol. 2014 Feb; 128(1):82-7.