Which animals communicate

Despite all the years of study, we always find new information about how animals transmit information to each other. Visual communication occurs in almost any animal species with the ability to see.

However, it is often particularly associated with birds. Many, but not all species are sexually dimorphic. This means that male and female specimens have different physical appearances. The theory is that plumage and movement show them as ideal candidates for mating, so they become their means of communication.

In a similar way, butterflies also communicate through their wings. Specifically, bright colors indicate to other animals that they are poisonous. The oriental fire-bellied frog also uses this technique.

As their name suggests, they have a red belly that they show towards predators. Chemical communication between animals is one of the most important and poorly understood communication methods in the animal kingdom. One of the most curious examples can be found within social insects living in organized groups. Jonathan Sep 27, Killian Nov 1, Quinceas24 Feb 8, I actually did't know that much about animals.

I learned that animals know more then people do. And I wonder if animals have more in common then we do. Feb 13, Sep 14, May 24, That's awesome! We love learning new things, too, Merita! Mar 9, It's true! Hannah Feb 21, The Speak, Fido website was written more that 2 years ago. Did they ever manage to make the device? I'd appreciate an actual answer and not an 'I don't know' response. Feb 21, Grey peach tree Mar 3, Mar 3, Gweneth Cordray Apr 11, Apr 12, Great to hear, Gweneth!

We're glad it was helpful! Faith Feb 18, I think the animals are us because we are animals to. And we use iPhones. Feb 19, Thanks for sharing your opinions! Josh Larsen Dec 7, Dec 8, Wes Dec 2, It's kind of joking at the beginning but it gets more fact full as it goes.

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May 25, Wonderopolis May 14, Hello, someone! Thanks for commenting! Wonderopolis Oct 16, Jada and Jaylin from Ms. Aug 29, We learned a lot from this article. An example from the text is most animals use their body to communicate. In the text it says that someway that you can know if a dog has to pee is when it scratches on the door or the wall.

If they lick you multiple times that mean they are happy to see you a lot. We have a request, can see how sea life communicates under water?

Also, how do animals learn to communicate with humans? Are they just born like that or does it take time for them to learn? Wonderopolis Aug 29, Johal's Class May 29, We found it very cool the way the dolphins communicate. We found the non-verbal techniques very interesting.

We wonder how ants communicate. Thank you for encouraging us to wonder! Wonderopolis May 29, Nicole Sanchez from Ms. May 2, How do dinosaurs communicate?

Well I know that there is a dinosaur that has a crest on top of their heads and it makes a squeaky sound and they communicate! Wonderopolis May 2, Abby Apr 29, Wonderopolis Apr 30, Electro-slice Apr 29, Wonderopolis Apr 29, The Wolf Apr 29, Fathima Apr 29, This the best wonder question about animals.

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Faith Apr 29, The caterpillar of the alcon blue butterfly scrapes its abdomen to create a kind of song. But unlike many other such critters, who use their communication techniques to contact others of their species, this is a message meant for a very different creature: red ants. The song imitates that of the red ant queen , so those soldier ants that hear it will guard the caterpillar, even killing their own kind in order to protect it.

Technically, elephants make very low sounds to one another. Thing is, they're so low that it does not strike the human ear as a sound—or anything more than a rumbling vibration.

Known as " infrasound " sounds below 20 hertz, too low for humans to detect , this way of communicating may seem quiet to humans, but researchers estimate that one African elephant making an infrasound can be heard by another more than miles away! These tiny, big-eyed primates living in Southeast Asia communicate at the opposite range of elephants—ultrasound frequencies over 20, Hertz that are far too high-pitched for the human ear to detect.

Scientists recorded them using similar devices as those used to record bats, capturing their vocalizations at 70, Hertz , which is believed to help them communicate over the jungle noise and out of range of predators , making it ideal for avoiding or alerting one another of danger.

By the way, tarsiers are one of the smallest animals in the world. Just as humans use their hands to emphasize a point, ravens do their own kind of gesticulating, using their beaks and wings to show or offer items such as moss, stones or twigs usually aimed at members of the opposite sex.

They also interact by clasping their bills together or moving an item together, as a show of potential bonding. You're probably aware that bats use high-pitched squeals to connect and communicate with each other. But you probably didn't know how specific such communications could get. Researchers at Tel Aviv University used a machine-learning algorithm to recognize bats' intonations and the messages they may be trying to convey, "translating" 15, calls into several specific messages— more than 60 percent were arguments about four specific things: food, sleep positions, invasion of personal space, or unwanted advances.

Chimps love to groom and to be groomed. But just like your spouse or partner loves a backrub…but even more if you focus on that one spot right there, chimps can be particular about where they want to get scratched, using " referential gesturing " to draw the attention of another chimp to the specific area they'd like to have groomed.

Day geckos, native to Madagascar, pioneered the idea of instant-order takeout long before Seamless or even humans came along. But rather than an app on their phones, they simply nod their heads at treehoppers—insects that digest sap an excrete it in a sugary liquid known as honeydew.

When the gecko communicates to the treehoppers that it would like some of that honeydew, the insects oblige, excreting it right into the amphibian's mouth.

You're probably familiar with electrically charged sea creatures such as the electric eel, but there is a particular species of electric fish that is able to use its voltage as a means of communicating.

Known as "weakly electric fish," these creatures, which, as their name implies, produce a mild electric discharge, use it to "chirp" out information , such as a male stating it's attracted a female. When two of these fish meet, they are known to tweak their wavelengths in order to allow each other to produce similar levels of voltage. As it turns out, these critters communicate through a kind of head-banging.

Spending their lives underground, they can communicate with one another by thumping their heads against the tops of their tunnels, in that way sending vibrations through the earth that travel much farther attempting to make a loud noise would be able to. The pace and intensity of the thumps indicate different meanings. Rock on. When black-footed titis a brown, rainforest-dwelling monkey , use high-pitched squeaks to let each other known not only what types of predator may be near but their general location.

Researchers have found that the monkeys vary their calls in a number of ways, creating their own syntax and complex communication system. Sometimes, singing to oneself is a way to tell the world you are away in your own world and don't really want to be bothered by all the craziness happening elsewhere hence, singing in the shower.