Animal Language

Now, you probably already know that animals can’t speak like humans or “Homo sapiens” can, but you probably don’t know exactly, with detail, how animals really do talk to each other. Well I have some really good news for you bud, I’m hear to tell you just how they do it.

Okay, so some ignorant, snobby people might argue that animals can understand humans and that this whole debate over animal communication is a waste of time but I beg to differ. The only exception I’m willing to make is the parrot, because technically, they can speak human words. But who cares about a parrot right? All those mean birds do is swear at you anyways. Anyways, sorry for my anger before, but really, animals have their own ways of communicating with each other and sometimes even us. When my dog has to go to the bathroom she’ll come and growl at me and place her paw right on my lap. But animals really don’t care what some humans have to say, if they could talk they would probably just threaten to eat us anyways.

Okay, I apologize for all my babble back there, but now on to the reason why we’re here, to learn how animals communicate with each other. Now, you might hear a lot of animals only use sound when they are communicating, but there’s a lot of details when discovering how exactly those sounds are used. For example, marine based animals use the pitch of sounds to decipher what another animals is “saying” to them. Dolphins also use clicking noises for communication too. Other animals like snakes for example use body language. Lets take the cobra. When a cobra is threatened it will raise half of its body and flare out it’s skin to warn predators or attackers to stay away, and trust me, you would want to get away as fast as possible. Crickets and grasshoppers on the other hand use sound to communicate with each other. They make this sound by rubbing their skinny-minnie legs together. You probably hear them on those nice summer night in your bushes, but the weird thing is that I never seen them come out the bush! Anyways, other animals that use sound to communicate are crustaceans, wasps, beetles, butterflies, and even spiders! Bees also use the famous “Bee dance” to inform the colony of the direction and distance of the food source. Pretty cool right? Yeah, so next time you go and try to tell your dog a command, don’t talk to them, bark at them!