Peter Marler
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British-American behavioral biologist
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Peter Marler's Degrees
- PhD Zoology University of Oxford
- Bachelors Zoology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Robert Marler ForMemRS was a British-born American ethologist and zoosemiotician known for his research on animal sign communication and the science of bird song. A 1964 Guggenheim Fellow, he was emeritus professor of neurobiology, physiology and ethology at the University of California, Davis.
Peter Marler's Published Works
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- Monkey responses to three different alarm calls: evidence of predator classification and semantic communication. (1980) (1252)
- Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate (1980) (890)
- A comparative approach to vocal learning: Song development in white-crowned sparrows. (1970) (886)
- Nature's Music: The Science of Birdsong (2004) (754)
- Communication Goes Multimodal (1999) (575)
- Characteristics of Some Animal Calls (1955) (565)
- Culturally Transmitted Patterns of Vocal Behavior in Sparrows (1964) (527)
- Issues in the Classification of Multimodal Communication Signals (2005) (511)
- Song "Dialects" in Three Populations of White-Crowned Sparrows (1962) (509)
- Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) screams: Representational signalling in the recruitment of agonistic aid (1984) (453)
- On the meaning of alarm calls: functional reference in an avian vocal system (1993) (401)
- Sound transmission and its significance for animal vocalization (1977) (397)
- Birdsong and speech development: could there be parallels? (1970) (375)
- Letters to the editor. (1974) (375)
- Selective Vocal Learning in a Sparrow (1977) (369)
- Sexual Differentiation (1992) (355)
- Sound transmission and its significance for animal vocalization (1977) (327)
- Specific Distinctiveness in the Communication Signals of Birds (1957) (325)
- Mechanisms Of Animal Behavior (1966) (320)
- Three models of song learning: evidence from behavior. (1997) (310)
- A Test for Responsiveness to Song Structure and Programming in Female Sparrows (1981) (284)
- Developmental overproduction and selective attrition: new processes in the epigenesis of birdsong. (1982) (266)
- Communication in Monkeys and Apes (1965) (242)
- Food-associated calls in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): I. Socioecological factors (1993) (235)
- The role of sex steroids in the acquisition and production of birdsong (1988) (229)
- Learning by Instinct (1987) (221)
- The Biology of Learning (1984) (217)
- The logical analysis of animal communication. (1961) (215)
- Animal Communication Signals (1967) (212)
- Bird Calls: Their Potential for Behavioral Neurobiology (2004) (206)
- Species-universal microstructure in the learned song of the swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) (1984) (205)
- Selection-based learning in bird song development. (1994) (203)
- Vocal communication in the domestic chicken: I. Does a sender communicate information about the quality of a food referent to a receiver? (1986) (203)
- Vocal communication in the domestic chicken: II. Is a sender sensitive to the presence and nature of a receiver? (1986) (195)
- Dialects in wild chimpanzees? (1992) (186)
- Individuality in a long-range vocalization of wild chimpanzees. (2010) (181)
- Innate differences in singing behaviour of sparrows reared in isolation from adult conspecific song (1985) (180)
- Chapter 5 – Bird calls: a cornucopia for communication (2004) (179)
- Song structure without auditory feedback: emendations of the auditory template hypothesis (1983) (178)
- Sparrows Learn Adult Song and More from Memory (1981) (174)
- The perception of birdsong and an ecological concept of signal space. (1990) (172)
- Food calling and audience effects in male chickens, Gallus gallus: their relationships to food availability, courtship and social facilitation (1994) (170)
- Bird songs and mate selection (1958) (167)
- On the use of video images as social stimuli in birds: audience effects on alarm calling (1991) (164)
- Neural lateralization of vocalizations by Japanese macaques: communicative significance is more important than acoustic structure. (1984) (160)
- Effects of apparent size and speed on the response of chickens, Gallus gallus, to computer-generated simulations of aerial predators (1993) (157)
- The Analysis of Animal Communication (1979) (153)
- Categorical perception of a natural stimulus continuum: birdsong. (1989) (153)
- Song-learning behavior: The interface with neuroethology (1991) (150)
- Species song discrimination in choice experiments with territorial male swamp and song sparrows (1980) (147)
- Song learning in canaries. (1977) (146)
- Role of auditory feedback in canary song development. (1977) (142)
- The role of articulation in the production of rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta, vocalizations (1993) (140)
- Semantics of an avian alarm call system: the male domestic fowl (1987) (130)
- How Do Birds Sing (1988) (130)
- Food-associated calls in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): II. Costs and benefits of call production and suppression (1993) (130)
- A species-specific acoustic cue for selective song learning in the white-crowned sparrow (2000) (127)
- A comparative approach to vocal learning: intraspecific variation in the learning process (1995) (127)
- Innate recognition of song in white-crowned sparrows: a role in selective vocal learning? (1993) (122)
- CHAPTER 10 – VOCAL LEARNING IN BIRDS (1971) (119)
- On animal aggression. The roles of strangeness and familiarity. (1976) (117)
- Quantitative Analysis of Animal Vocal Phonology: an Application to Swamp Sparrow Song (2010) (115)
- Behavioral neurobiology of birdsong (2004) (113)
- A Sensitive Period for Song Acquisition in the Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia: A Case of Age‐limited Learning (2010) (111)
- Colobus guereza: Territoriality and Group Composition (1969) (110)
- Effects of acoustical stimulation and deprivation on song development in red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus). (1972) (109)
- Avian alarm calling: Is there an audience effect? (1986) (106)
- Acoustic and neural bases for innate recognition of song. (1997) (104)
- Species-specific perceptual processing of vocal sounds by monkeys. (1979) (104)
- A comparison of vocalizations of red-tailed monkeys and blue monkeys, Ceropithecus ascanius and C. mitis, in Uganda. (2010) (101)
- Song learning: the interface between behaviour and neuroethology. (1990) (97)
- Response of male song and swamp sparrows to neighbour, stranger, and self songs. (1981) (96)
- Food calling in the domestic fowl, Gallus gallus: the role of external referents and deception (1988) (95)
- Correlations between song acquisition, song production, and plasma levels of testosterone and estradiol in sparrows. (1987) (94)
- A Phonological Analysis of Male Gibbon Singing Behavior (1989) (93)
- Neuroscience of Birdsong (2012) (93)
- Audience effects on alarm calling in chickens (Gallus gallus). (1988) (92)
- Sensitive periods for song acquisition from tape recordings and live tutors in the swamp sparrow (2010) (90)
- Vocalizations of East African monkeys II : black and white colobus (1972) (89)
- Song acquisition in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris: a comparison of the songs of live-tutored, tape-tutored, untutored, and wild-caught males (1993) (89)
- Studies of fighting in Chaffinches (3) proximity as a cause of aggression (1956) (83)
- Long-term storage of learned birdsongs prior to production (1982) (81)
- Species song discrimination in adult female song and swamp sparrows (1981) (80)
- The Role of Song Phonology and Syntax in Vocal Learning Preferences in the Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia (2010) (80)
- Ordering of sequences of singing behaviour of mistle thrushes in relationship to timing (1963) (79)
- Song Learning: Innate Species Differences in the Learning Process (1984) (79)
- Language and animal communication: parallels and contrasts (1995) (75)
- Singing in the brain. (2000) (74)
- Birdsong: The acquisition of a learned motor skill (1981) (74)
- Vocalizations of East African monkeys. I. Red colobus. (1970) (74)
- REPERTOIRE TURNOVER AND THE TIMING OF SONG ACQUISITION IN EUROPEAN STARLINGS (1994) (73)
- Imprinting and cortical plasticity (1987) (73)
- Ethology and the Natural History of Learning (1984) (71)
- Action-Based Learning: a New Form of Developmental Plasticity in Bird Song (1992) (69)
- The Organization of Song Repertoires in Song Sparrows: Themes and Variations (2010) (68)
- Song Development in Hand-Raised Oregon Juncos (1962) (67)
- Overproduction in song development: an evolutionary correlate with migration (1996) (62)
- Vocal syntax development in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys). (2001) (61)
- Testosterone-induced shortening of the storage phase of song development in birds interferes with vocal learning. (1995) (58)
- THE VOICE OF THE CHAFFINCH AND ITS FUNCTION AS A LANGUAGE (2008) (58)
- Physical Analysis of a Simple Bird Song as Exemplified by the Chipping Sparrow (1960) (58)
- Avian and primate communication: The problem of natural categories (1982) (55)
- Vocal Communication in Primates and Birds: Parallels and Contrasts (1988) (54)
- Innate learning preferences: signals for communication. (1990) (52)
- Studies of fighting in chaffinches (1) behaviour in relation to the social hierarchy (1955) (52)
- Response of sparrows to songs of deaf and isolation-reared males: further evidence for innate auditory templates. (1987) (51)
- Effects of continuous noise on avian hearing and vocal development. (1973) (51)
- The evolution of communication (1977) (51)
- Female appearance as a factor in the responsiveness of male chickens during anti-predator behaviour and courtship (1992) (49)
- Behavior of the Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs (1958) (48)
- The capacity for song memorization varies in populations of the same species (1996) (47)
- The Response of Swamp Sparrows To Acoustically Distinct Song Types (1982) (46)
- Do responses of galliform birds vary adaptively with predator size? (2005) (44)
- Song acquisition in photosensitive and photorefractory male European starlings (1990) (44)
- Social behavior and communication (1979) (42)
- The timing of song memorization differs in males and females: a new assay for avian vocal learning (1997) (42)
- VARIATION IN THE SONG OF THE CHAFFINCH FRINGILLA COELEBS. (2008) (41)
- Anterior forebrain pathway is needed for stable song expression in adult male white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) (1998) (41)
- Science and birdsong: the good old days (2004) (41)
- Studies of fighting in Chaffinches. (2) the effect on dominance relations of disguising females as males (1955) (41)
- Predation: Prey plumage adaptation against falcon attack (2005) (40)
- A Dynamic Systems Approach to Development: Applications; The Language Instinct (2007) (40)
- Innateness and the instinct to learn. (2004) (39)
- LEARNING BY INSTRUCTION OR SELECTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR PATTERNS OF GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN BIRD SONG (2001) (38)
- Alarm signals in birds: The role of testosterone (1988) (38)
- Social Cognition: Are Primates Smarter than Birds? (1996) (37)
- Bird calls: just emotional displays or something more? (2008) (36)
- AN ETHOLOGICAL THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF VOCAL LEARNING * (1976) (36)
- Addition of song-related neurons in swamp sparrows coincides with memorization, not production, of learned songs. (1989) (34)
- Of Foxes and Hedgehogs: The Interface Between Organismal and Populational Biology—II (1969) (34)
- SONG VARIATION IN A POPULATION OF BROWN TOWHEES (1960) (32)
- Neuroselection and song learning in birds: species universals in a culturally transmitted behavior (1992) (30)
- Cues for Early Discrimination of Conspecific Song in the White‐Crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) (2001) (30)
- Photoperiod and tutor access affect the process of vocal learning (1998) (29)
- Primate Vocalization: Affective or Symbolic? (1980) (28)
- Song Sparrows Learn from Limited Exposure to Song Models (1992) (27)
- Do Animals have the Option of Withholding Signals When Communication is Inappropriate? The Audience Effect (1991) (27)
- The Umwelt and its relevance to animal communication: introduction to special issue. (2002) (25)
- Validation of an enzyme immunoassay for measurement of excreted estrogen and testosterone metabolites in the white‐crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha) (1995) (25)
- Imprinting and cortical plasticity. Comparative aspects of sensitive periods Edited by J. P. Rauschecker and P. Nader. Wiley Series in Neuroscience. 1987, 377 pages, £57.50. (1988) (22)
- The Mountain Gorilla: Ecology and Behavior (1963) (22)
- THE COMMUNICATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF TONALITY IN BIRDSONG: RESPONSES TO SONGS PRODUCED IN HELIUM (1989) (21)
- Chapter 4 – External Reference and Affective Signaling in Mammalian Vocal Communication (1985) (20)
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF PICO, AZORES. (2008) (19)
- Playback and speaker-replacement experiments on song-based neighbor, stranger, and self discrimination in male Red-winged Blackbirds (1982) (19)
- Songs of isolation-reared sparrows function in communication, but are significantly less effective than learned songs (1985) (18)
- Studies of fighting in chaffinches (4) appetitive and consummatory behaviour (1957) (17)
- Interspecific Differences in the Response of Female Birds to Song Repertoires (2010) (16)
- Some Ethological Implications for Neuroethology: The Ontogeny of Birdsong (1983) (15)
- The 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1973) (14)
- Functionally referential signals : a promising paradigm whose time has passed 3 4 (2015) (14)
- VOCALIZATIONS, SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE TWITE ACANTHUS FLAVIROSTRIS (2008) (13)
- Do bird nestmates learn the same songs? (2005) (12)
- The Ornithocoprophilous Vegetation of the Bird Cliffs of Rost in the Lofoten Islands, Northern Norway. (1949) (12)
- The psychology of facial expression: Animal sounds and human faces: Do they have anything in common? (1997) (12)
- TERRITORY AND INDIVIDUAL DISTANCE IN THE CHAFFINCH FRINGILLA COELEBS (2008) (11)
- AN ANALYSIS OF THE VEGETATION OF THE NORTHERN SLOPES OF PICO-THE AZORES (1952) (11)
- Ethology and the origins of behavioral endocrinology (2005) (11)
- Measurement of Song Learning Behavior in Birds (1993) (11)
- Is the Tonal Quality of Birdsong Learned? Evidence from Song Sparrows (2010) (9)
- Flight songs of swamp sparrows: alternative phonology of an alternative song category (1991) (9)
- Androstenedione therapy reinstates normal, not supernormal, song structure in castrated adult male zebra finches (1992) (8)
- Analysis of syllable structure in songs of the brown towhee (1960) (8)
- PRIMATE VOCALIZATION: AFFECTIVE OR SYMBOLIC?**The author is indebted for thoughtful discussion and criticism of this paper to Steven Green, Donald Griffin, William Mason, David Premack and Thomas A. Sebeok. Research was supported by NSF grant number BNS75-19431. (1977) (8)
- 3. Constraints on Learning: Development of Bird Song (1974) (6)
- Learning by instinct: birdsong. (1989) (5)
- Cortical plasticity and imprinting:Behavioral and physiological contrasts and parallels (1987) (5)
- Communication signals of animals: contributions of emotion and reference (1997) (4)
- 5 – Innate Programs for Perceptual Development: An Ethological View1 (1981) (4)
- Mechanisms of animal behavior: recent work and theories. (1966) (3)
- Communication As Evidence of Thinking State of the Art Report (1982) (3)
- Biology of Learning in Nonmammalian Vertebrates (1984) (3)
- Bird Song Learning (2008) (3)
- Biology of learning in nonmammalian vertebrates: group report (1984) (3)
- Cognitive Ethology : Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin (2014) (3)
- How Much Does a Human Environment Humanize a Chimp (1999) (2)
- Social Behavior and Organization Among Vertebrates. William Etkin, Ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1964. xii + 307 pp. Illus. $7.50 (1964) (2)
- Ethology: the classic and the avant-garde (1982) (2)
- Mechanisms of kin-correlated behavior: group report (1980) (1)
- Birdsong and neurogenesis (1988) (1)
- and Its Significance Sound Transmission for Animal Vocalization (1977) (1)
- Rating the Thorndike Inheritance: By Worth or By Weight? (1995) (1)
- Early Patterns of Perception. (1979) (1)
- Birds@@@The Fulmar@@@Sea-Birds: An Introduction to the Natural History of the Sea-Birds of the North Atlantic@@@A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1954) (1)
- The biology of learning : report of the Dahlem Workshop on the Biology of Learning, Berlin 1983, October 23-28 (1984) (1)
- Pioneer Ecologist: Fraser Darling's Islands. (1987) (1)
- t ! t f i f ! ! l i Primates ' Conceptual Use of Number : Ecological Perspectives and Psychological Processes (2018) (0)
- Cortical Plasticity : Theoretical Analysis, Experimental Results (1987) (0)
- BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS (1961) (0)
- Sounds of Nature D. J. Borror W. W. Gunn (1961) (0)
- Circadian Clocks (2001) (0)
- Book review: the language instinct by steven pinker. new york: William morrow and company, inc., 1994 isbn 0-688-12141-1 (1995) (0)
- MOVED: Birdsong Learning (2017) (0)
- A Good Paperback on Animal Behavior. (1969) (0)
- The W.G.T.A. and Cloth Mothers. (1966) (0)
- RESEARCH ARTICLES Dialects in Wild Chimpanzees (1992) (0)
- 1.13 – Birdsong Learning (2017) (0)
- Pioneer Ecologist: Fraser Darling's Islands . J. Morton Boyd. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1986 (U.S. distributor, Columbia University Press, New York). xiv, 252 pp., illus. $25. (1987) (0)
- NOTICEBOARD (2004) (0)
- Meat Eating in Primates: The Predatory Behavior of Wild Chimpanzees . Geza Teleki. Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pa., 1973. 232 pp., illus. $15. The Primates. (1973) (0)
- Unto the sweet bird's throat (1996) (0)
- In Memoriam: Konrad Lorenz, 1903-1989 (1991) (0)
- Preface: the Editors (2004) (0)
- Introduction: Communication: behavior and neurobiology (1992) (0)
- How Do Birds Sing ? Author ( s ) : Stephen Nowicki and (2008) (0)
- Baboon Ecology: Baboon Behavior: Baboon Social Organization: The Baboon Troop: Dynamics of Male Dominance in a Baboon Troop (1973) (0)
- Frontiers in primatology: primate communication. (1983) (0)
- Sex, lives and hormones (1993) (0)
- Birdsongs and Avian Linguiatics— There’s More to Them Than Meets the Ears (1981) (0)
- Born to Talk (1994) (0)
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