Principles of Animal Communication

Rating:
Summary: Informative in some areas, others present wrong information
Review: The authors do a wonderful service in collecting and combining a wide body of literature into a readable book. This is a large and tedious job and the authors do a fairly decent job. One area that is particularly off-base is the chemical communication chapter. The authors cite very little literature that is newer than 1988 and base their whole chapter on erroneous theories. I have told all of my students to throw this chapter away.