The Vast Majority of This Chapter Focused on Intraspecific Communication

The vast majority of this chapter focused on intraspecific communication. Do you think communication occurs between individuals of different species? To assist in your quest to understand interspecific communication, consider a paper by Schuett and colleagues (1984), "Feeding Mimicry in the Rattlesnake Sistrurus Catenatus with Comments on the Evolution of the Rattle" (Animal Behavior, vol. 32, pp. 625-626) in which they describe a form of feeding mimicry in juvenile rattlesnakes called caudal luring (see also Reiserer & Schuett 2008). Do you think caudal luring qualifies as a form of communication based on the definitions provided in Principles of Animal Behavior and in the answer.