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Abstract
Zoosemiotics is the study of meaning-making (semiosis) within and between species. It is a subset of biosemiotics, which generally concerns the process of meaning-making in life. The seminal semiotician Kalevi Kull described zoosemiotics as "the study of animal forms of knowing."
History
[edit | edit source]Zoosemiotics was first developed by the American linguist Thomas Sebeok (1920-2001) in 1963.
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[edit | edit source]Subfields and recent developments
[edit | edit source]Zoosemiotics has been greatly expanded upon by Italian semiotician Dario Martinelli, who has introduced a number of specialized subfields within zoosemiotics, such as anthropological zoosemiotics and zoomusicology.
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[edit | edit source]An ethics statement, if appropriate, on any animal or human research performed should be included here or in the methods section.