Can Animal Communication be considered a Language

Can Animal Communication
be considered a Language

Table of Contents.
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Communication is the basic form of expressing ideas and thought and is the techniques for
conveying message from one creature to another. It is not always that communication includes
words, while communication can happen in the form of actions, gestures as well as expressions.
This form of non-verbal techniques of communicate is some times have similar impact as that of the
verbal impact. In this it has been discussed the reason of animal communications followed by the
question that is animal communication can be considered as a language. Moreover, in this report it
has been discussed the various types of animal communication (Swadesh, 2017).
Reason of animal communications
Languages are considered to be the most complex method of communication which occurs among
the human beings. When humans wants to express their ideas, thoughts and wants they tend to use
these set of verbal as well as non-verbal set of communication techniques. Human beings uses
words, expressions and actions to express their views, thoughts and feelings while on the other hand
animals uses the signs of communication to express their feelings such as dogs wagging their tails
when they get excited or the birds sang songs to attract the bird of opposite sex. Communication
generally happens within the creatures of single species or some times it happens between the
creatures of different species (Zahavi, 2018). This communication through signals by animals
includes involvement of sounds or auditory whereas communication through chemical involvement
includes pheromones. Some creatures communicate through cues, touches or tactile. One of the
essential reason for the animals to communicate is for caring their younger ones, for coordinating
their groups of similar behaviour, for defeating for their particular territory, for establishing their
dominance as well as most essentially for finding their mates or attracting the opposite sex.
Animal communications can be considered as a language?
Different scientists have researched over whether the animal communication can be considered as a
language or not which has been discussed below.
Some researchers have said it is true that animal to have in born qualities to communicate with each
other through sounds and gestures. Mostly, animals tends to produce the sound to express their
feelings of hunger and fear. Thus, animals uses some form of communication, where some animal
communications are complexer than that of the another. Moreover, the language of animal
communication is similar to that of the human language, but there are some significant differences.
For example, chimpanzees and baboons uses lexigrams, figures or symbols to represent their words,
whereas animals such as whales & birds uses the language of songs to expresses their feelings or to
communicate with one another. It has been researched by the various scientists that some animals
communicate or transfer their information through the usage of movements of their body or through