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Behaviours that transfer information between organisms
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Difference between clicks, codas and pulse calls in (sperm or killer) whales
I am studying articles about the communication of cetaceans, but I dont' understand exactly what they mean because there is not a common terminology.
Referring to a syllable as a "bout" (...
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Are animals that can make facial expressions more visually communicative?
This is more like a shower thought but I was really interested in finding an answer. If this is the case, I would like sources that support this and gives reasons to why this may be the case. In the ...
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Evolutionarily, why do some animals perceive eye contact as a sign of aggression?
It's said that species like dogs and bears perceive eye contact as a sign of aggression. Primates -- including us humans, in many of the world's cultures -- use eye contact in this way as well, to the ...
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Are there animals which produce sound through direct muscular oscillation?
Obviously, muscles are involved in producing sound, but usually not directly. I.e., the muscles that control human vocal cords do not actually vibrate the vocal cords--a different set of muscles ...
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Could an animal have a developed Broca's area but no Wernicke's area?
Broca's area's function is for speech production, specifically, the control of muscular movement for speech, and Wernicke's area's function is the comprehend language or communication, Communication ...
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Is DNA a Language? [duplicate]
I’ve been thinking about attributes that are unique to humans (not just far more developed in humans than other species) and aside from trivial things like chins, the only ones I can think of are art ...
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Can whales send each other [3D] images?
Russell Arnott, apparently an oceanographer, who currently works as a project manager at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (UK), wrote in his piece Whales and Waves (2016, p.2):
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Should soundscape ecology be a component of STEM education? [closed]
I'd like to see soundscape ecology be included in STEM education. I realize there is so much to teach and so little time, but think that primary and secondary students would be highly motivated and ...
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Do animals lie?
Have there been any studies that show or suggest that species known to be able to communicate information between individuals ever intentionally communicate false information i.e. lie?
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Waggle dance in the dark
Karl von Frisch discovered waggle dance [1] as communication system when bees talk about feed resources;
Long story short, using a polar coordinate system, bees dance to reveal flowers to sisters.
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Do ants know the direct (approximately shortest) path to their nest from the food morsel?
I've been studying a bit on the foraging habits of ants, and one of the things I'm not clear on is whether ants know the shortest path from the food that they find to their nest. I understand that ...
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Are there any animals that are unable to hear the human voice?
Humans and animals have different hearing ranges. The frequency range of a human, for example, is stated with 20 Hz to 20 kHz, whereas the fundamental voice frequency is stated with 125 Hz for men, ...
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Do any non-human species have juveniles that cannot communicate with adults?
Human babies take 1+ years to begin learning how to speak (though sign language can be learned a bit earlier1).
I know that cries, yells, and other non-linguistic sound are a simple form of ...
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Are there solitary animals communicating with themselves?
I can imagine 3 different kinds of communication between individuals:
Communication between individuals of the same species.
Communication between an individual and another from a different species.
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How exactly does symbolic language for apes work?
I'm talking about the panels with lots of colored symbols on them you sometimes see in documentaries and the like. Apes point at the symbols in a specific order and in this way can communicate with ...
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