Rundus Aaron S, Hart Lynette A
Animal Behavior Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA.
J Comp Psychol. 2002 Jun;116(2):120-2. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.116.2.120.
Scientists from many distinct disciplines often use concepts such as habitat, environment, and niche to describe among other things the physical characteristics of the communicative worlds of animals. Often these descriptions center on the physical characteristics most salient to humans' perceptual systems. In this article, the authors advocate an approach to the description and analysis of the physical characteristics of animal communicative worlds based on J. von Uexküll's (1934/1957) concept of the Umwelt. Such an approach emphasizes the physical characteristics of the world as perceived by the organism in question, and its use has often led to novel and unexpected insights into animal communicative systems.
来自许多不同学科的科学家经常使用栖息地、环境和生态位等概念来描述动物交流世界的物理特征等内容。这些描述通常集中在对人类感知系统最显著的物理特征上。在本文中，作者提倡一种基于J.冯·于克斯屈尔（1934/1957）的“环境世界”概念来描述和分析动物交流世界物理特征的方法。这种方法强调所讨论的生物体所感知到的世界的物理特征，其应用常常能带来对动物交流系统新颖且意想不到的见解。
