Social interactions are ubiquitous across the animal kingdom. A variety of ecological and
evolutionary processes are dependent on social interactions, such as movement, disease …

Why animal communication displays are so complex and how they have evolved are active
foci of research with a long and rich history. Progress towards an evolutionary analysis of …

Though it has long been known that animal communication is complex, recent years have
seen growing interest in understanding the extent to which animals give multicomponent …

Courtship displays are behaviours aimed to facilitate attraction and mating with the opposite
sex and are very common across the animal kingdom. Most courtship displays are …

Ornaments used in courtship often vary wildly among species, reflecting the evolutionary
interplay between mate preference functions and the constraints imposed by natural …

Many mating signals consist of multimodal components that need decoding by several
sensory modalities on the receiver's side. For methodological and conceptual reasons, the …

Schizocosa wolf spiders show tremendous diversity in courtship complexity, with different
species employing varying numbers of components within and across sensory modalities …

Degeneracy is ubiquitous across biological systems where structurally different elements
can yield a similar outcome. Degeneracy is of particular interest in neuroscience too. On the …

Does non‐human communication, like language, involve meaning? This question guides
our focus through an interdisciplinary review of the theories and terminology used to study …

Efficient information coding (EIC) is a universal biological framework rooted in the
fundamental principle that system responses should match their natural stimulus statistics for …