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Human language and animal communication
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"Structures such as the long ornamented tail of the peacock, the roaring sounds of howler monkeys, audible kilometers away, and the pheromone trails laid by ants to guide their nest mates to resources are each examples of animal signals"
-Bees can give accurate information about a source of nectar that neither her nor the rest of the group has visited before just by dancing
Songbirds, dolphins and humans have the ability to imitate while apes and monkeys did not develop it
Animals can communicate using various channels:
chemical
electric
acoustic
optical
tactile
No, animals are not able to write sonnets or quote Freud but they express their basic needs through signals and they evolved enough to adapt them to certain situations
electric fish utilize discrete pulses of electric discharge to communicate
Dr. Noam Chomsky : "attempting to teach linguistic skills to animals is irrational, like trying to teach people to flap their arms and fly"
"Humans can fly about 30 feet -- that's what they do in the Olympics.Is that flying? The question is totally meaningless. In fact the analogy to flying is misleading because when humans fly 30 feet, the organs they're using are kind of homologous to the ones that chickens and eagles use."
Conclusion
Kanzie is a male bonobo who was raised in a language environment similar to that in which children are raised but specifically modified to be appropriate for an ape and managed to acquire linguistic abilities just by observing his mother taking lessons.
Kanzie, is able to communicate with people around him using symbols.
language - the method of human communication using spoken or written words
communication - the process of giving information or of making emotions or ideas known to someone
Human language is a complex tool system that we use in order to express complex ideas, emotions or simple objects and actions.
What about animals? Can they speak? How do they communicate?