Frontmatter -- Contents Readings in Zoosemiotics Prehistory -- Introduction Of Ideas Of the Reason of Animals General Principles of Expression Essentials in Zoosemiotics -- Introduction The Theory of Meaning Zoosemiotics: At the Intersection of Nature and Culture "Talking" with Animals: Zoosemiotics Explained The Word 'Zoosemiotics' Chapters from Animal Communication Studies -- Introduction The Study of Animal Communication: An Overview The Animal's Expression Decoding the Language of the Bee Meaning, Reference, and Intentionality in the Natural Vocalizations of Monk Intentional Communication and Social Play: How and Why Animals Negotiate and Agree to Play Prefigurements of Art Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives -- Introduction The Logical Analysis of Animal Communication Animal Communication and the Study of Cognition Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication Metalogue: What is an Instinct? Human(itie)s, Animals and Contemporary Zoosemiotics -- Introduction Is Man Language? The Animal in the Study of Humanity The Biosemiotics and Phylogenesis of Culture Biotranslation: Translation between Umwelten Index