As we know, we human has our own ways to communicate with each other, and the most important one is language. Human has lot of languages. People from different countries and different races might speak different languages. And those languages only known by themselves. So what about animals? From my point of view, different kind of animals also have different kind of ways to communicate with each other, but do they have languages? As we know, birds sing to each other to communicate with each other, some mammals like bears and lions also can communicate with each other by voice. So I do think animals have their own language. Although their brain were not smart than human beings, they can still create their own language.
Animal Language
I feel the most interesting animals to observe as far as language and communication are primates. The reason for this is because they are most similarly related to humans. It is well known that primates are able to communicate with each other, but what i find the most interesting is that some primates such as orangutangs can be taught sign language. This alone shows that animals can communicate and their ability of some to communicate with humans is amazing to me.
Yes,I think every animals have thier own language.I have a good friend it is a dog, After a long period of coexistence,We know each other. I know a little language for my dog and sometimes I call its name, it will come. I think Guide dogs know a lot of human language.In fact, understand the language of the animals sometimes can be better and they get along.
I think this is a great topic to talk about. I would say I agree with you that, animals do have their own individual language that differs from ours in several ways such as the sound and also the syntax. Animals are unable to learn our syntax, or sentence structure like we use to structure our speech but that does not mean that they don't have their own syntax. It easily could be that each different type of organism has their own syntax and opposite organisms cannot understand a syntax different from theirs or understand how to use it. It is also rather interesting that animals cannot talk like we can, but yet again that doesn't mean they don't have a language. Instead they use the phonemes (sounds that don't make complete words) as their language. Animals can understand the different sounds that the each other make so they must have a language!
I very much agree with a few of the commenters on this post in saying that animals do have language. In my experience of owning two dogs, I have realized that they do have their own distinct language. There language is similar to ours in the sense that they form sounds that dictate their feeling and what they want to get across. For example, one of my dogs will growl at the other when it gets to close to its bone. My one dog realizes this as meaning to back away. What intrigues me the most is that we are able to understand some of an animal’s language and they can interpret some of ours. Just as a dog can interpret another dog’s growl, we interpret growling as meaning that we are too close. Similarly, dogs can understand some of our words as well. Often times it requires some training to get a dog to understand what we mean, but eventually a dog can interpret one to two word phrases, such as, “sit” and “roll over”. Overall, I find the language between animals to be interesting an interesting topic and find the communication between animals and humans equally interesting.
I would have to agree with everyone that has commented on this post so far. It is truly amazing how animals have a way with communicating with one another (especially the same types of animals), but also with humans as well. I own two dogs and they definitely can sense when I am upset from a bad day. They come and nurture me while looking at me with their huge eyes. The two also communicate the same way that vanre012 explained. Knowing when one needs to back down from the other by growling or the tail sticking up is truly amazing. That runs by the idea that we as humans also have body language. I can definitely tell when someone is mad at me or annoyed of me just by the way they show through body language. Interesting blog!
Yes, I agree with the previous comments that animals have their own languages. Communication with one another, regardless of what kind of animal, creature, or living thing you are, is language. You are communicating to the someone, a message of some sort. Of course, just because we humans don't understand what they are communicating to each other, doesn't mean that they don't have a language.
To go into a more atypical example of animal communication, ants are supposed to have an incredibly complex language involving the tracks and sounds they produce. Also, animals do make vocal sounds to communicate, however, like with humans and perhaps more so with animals, a lot of communication has to do with body language. This is especially known amongst wolves with their body signs for playfulness, submitting, taking lead, and so many more. I couldn't manage to convince myself that they don't have a language. After all, how can one interact with one another without some assemblage of communication?
Animals definitely have language of their own. The way my dogs go about together they definitely communicate. when they are outside doing their thing, they go together in unison. I think that there is an overlap between animal language and humans, non verbally, that is. I swear my dogs know when one of my family members is done and comes over to comfort us. And they can adapt to our moods in my opinion. If I'm not in the mood to give them attention, they can tell from my non verbal communication to leave me alone or else they get put in the kennel. I guess that's a little bit of learning too.
I think that some sort of communication is essential in any species. I believe that language is any form of communication that is understood by the specific species. Therefore every species must have some sort of language with each other to understand what others are doing. For example, some animals hunt in packs. They must have some way of communicating that they are going hunting.
Animals can communicate in a lot of different ways. How they adapt and "talk" to each other is extremely interesting. I would like to see some studies on how animals effectively communicate and "talk" to each other.
Animals do have their own distinct language. Last summer, I worked as a tour guide at the International Crane Foundation in Wisconsin Dells. I was a tour guide and responsible for knowing basically all there is to know about cranes. One of the topics we're supposed to tell our tour-goers is about the crane language. They have different calls (some indicating mating and some indicating danger) while a very important part of their language is non-verbal. Fluffing their feathers, standing up straight, the top of their head turning red all designate that they feel threatened. Animals do have distinct language, and humans, when put in time to understand it, can communicate with them.