Publications by authors named "Jenny Amphaeris"
A multifaceted framework to establish the presence of meaning in non-human communication.
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
December 2023
Article Synopsis
- The text explores the concept of meaning in non-human communication, focusing on how it is challenging to apply this idea across different species and disciplines due to varying theoretical approaches.
- It proposes a unified framework that categorizes meaning into three facets: Signal Meaning, Interactant Meaning, and Resultant Meaning, showing that these aspects can be applied to both non-human and human communication.
- The authors argue against simplistic views of meaning, suggesting a multifaceted approach is more beneficial for understanding the complexities of communication across species, thus encouraging evolutionary biologists and others to consider meaning in their research.
Human-wildlife cooperation occurs when humans and free-living wild animals actively coordinate their behavior to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome. These interactions provide important benefits to both the human and wildlife communities involved, have wider impacts on the local ecosystem, and represent a unique intersection of human and animal cultures. The remaining active forms are human-honeyguide and human-dolphin cooperation, but these are at risk of joining several inactive forms (including human-wolf and human-orca cooperation).
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