Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- 1 METALOGUE: WHAT IS AN INSTINCT? / BATESON, GREGORY -- 2 THE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY OF ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION IN ANIMALS / BUSNEL, MARIE-CLAIRE -- 3 APPROACHES TO STUDIES OF THE NATURALISTIC COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES / CARPENTER, C. R. -- 4 ANIMAL COMMUNICATION IN MAN-SCIENCE: AN ESSAY IN PERSPECTIVE / COUNT, EARL W. -- 5 PROBLEMS IN THE SYSTEMATIZATION OF COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR / LENNEBERG, ERIC Η. -- 6 THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION / MOLES, ABRAHAM A. -- 7 THE CLASSIFICATION OF ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR AMONG TELEOST FISHES / MOULTON, JAMES M. -- 8 TIME, SPACE, AND HIERARCHY IN ZOOSEMIOTICS / RAMSAY, ALEXANDRA -- 9 SEMIOTICS AND ETHOLOGY / SEBEOK, THOMAS A. -- 10 THE STUDY OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION: AN OVERVIEW / WENNER, ADRIAN M. -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- INDEX