ABSTRACT
Communication enables animals to coordinate their actions, to express their cognitive and emotional states, to inform, threaten, warn, comfort, deceive, and entertain. Animal communication systems range from apparently simple alarm calls and threats, to honeybee dances, elaborate mating rituals, bird song, and human language. Communication, in one form or another, seems to be a prerequisite for complex social behavior. Furthermore, the processes by which individual animals acquire a communication system involves a complex interplay between innate and learned components
