The voices of nature: how and why animals communicate

Animal chatters: Tinbergen's four questions --

Making circles in water: a short vade mecum of physical acoustics --

The warbler's eyebrows: why do bird sing? --

Cocktails between birds: noise and communication theory --

Family dinner: parent-offspring communication --

Submarine ears: underwater bioacoustics --

The tango of the elephant seals: vocal signals and conflict ritualization --

The caiman's tears: acoustic communication in crocodiles --

Hear, at all cost: mechanisms of audition --

Tell me what you look like: production of sound signals --

Networking addiction: acoustic communication networks --

Learning to talk: vocal learning in birds and mammals --

Inaudible speech: ultrasounds, infrasounds, and vibrations --

The laughing hyena: communications and complex social systems --

Ancestral fears: the acoustic expression of emotions --

The booby's foot: acoustic communications and sex roles --

Listening to the living: ecoacoustics and biodiversity --

Words....words: do animals have a language?