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q-bio.NC2013★ 120 cited
Compression as a universal principle of animal behavior
R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, A. Hernández-Fernández, D. Lusseau +3
A key aim in biology and psychology is to identify fundamental principles underpinning the behavior of animals, including humans. Analyses of human language and the behavior of a r…
q-bio.NC2012★ 11 cited
The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analyzing mean call durations
Stuart Semple, Minna J. Hsu, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy +1
Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and w…