Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants

Communication, speech and language in human- and non-human animals. The complexity of communication systems and intelligence in animals.- Intelligent communication: can animals exchange meaningful messages?.- Cracking animals codes.- Direct dialogs with animals by means of intermediary languages.- Ants and Bits.- Why bits? Information Theory as a tool for studying natural communication systems.- Why ants? Reliable agents for information transmission.- Ants on the Binary Tree.- The entropy - based approach.- The Kolmogorov Complexity-based approach.- Ants can compress information.- Numerical competence in animals with an insight from ant "language".- Criteria of numerical competence for comparative studies.- Quantitative judgments in animals.- Advanced numerical abilities.- Information Theory as a tool for studying wild arithmetic on the base of their own communications.- An insight from ant "language": flexibility of communication as a basis for arithmetic skills.

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• Teoria da informação
• Equipamentos científicos, experiências e técnicas
• Fisiologia animal
• Biologia, ciências da vida
• Teoria da codificação e criptologia
• Neurociências

communication code;information theory;information transmission;social insects;behavioural ecology