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