ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2023
Information Theory Opens New Dimensions in Experimental Studies of Animal Behaviour and Communication.
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Abstract
Over the last 40-50 years, ethology has become increasingly quantitative and computational. However, when analysing animal behavioural sequences, researchers often need help finding an adequate model to assess certain characteristics of these sequences while using a relatively small number of parameters. In this review, I demonstrate that the information theory approaches based on Shannon entropy and Kolmogorov complexity can furnish effective tools to analyse and compare animal natural behaviours. In addition to a comparative analysis of stereotypic behavioural sequences, information theory can provide ideas for particular experiments on sophisticated animal communications. In particular, it has made it possible to discover the existence of a developed symbolic "language" in leader-scouting ant species based on the ability of these ants to transfer abstract information about remote events.
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