Published Writings
Slobodchikoff has published numerous papers in animal behavior, ecology, and evolution. One of his better known papers on evolution was published with Thomas G. Whitham in 1981 in the journal Oecologia: Evolution of individuals, plant-herbivore interactions, and mosaics of genetic variability: the adaptive significance of somatic mutations in plants. A seminal paper on prairie dog communication was published in 1991 in the journal Animal Behaviour: Semantic information distinguishing individual predators in the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs. He has been editor or co-editor of several books including: Concepts of Species; A New Ecology: Novel Approaches to Interactive Systems; and The Ecology of Social Behavior. He is lead author, along with Bianca S. Perla and Jennifer L. Verdolin, of the book: Prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Society, published by Harvard University Press. His book Chasing Doctor Dolittle: Learning the Language of Animals will be published by St. Martin's Press in November 2012.
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