Speaking Bonobo

The article Animals Mind by Virginia Morell claim the idea that animals are smart. Virginia talk about Irene a recently graduated from Harvard University who experimented with a gray parrot named Alex. Irene teach Alex to reproduce sound of the English language. Alex learned to talk and count to six and also he can difference flavors and colors. Virginia said that animals are capable to think, and they can learn things from humans. The author point dogs understand human’s forms of communication. She also suggests that animals has a higher mental abilities: good memories and also creatively. Virginia support the main idea that animals are smart. If animals can learn and memorize and understand signs is because they can think. So animals have

The linguist is wrong towards animals. They are saying a type of ape called a Bonobo can’t learn or use language.The truth is they can because they are intelligent and how they're able to learn.

Some apes are able to communicate intelligently with humans effectively. This is shown in a video clip from 60 Minutes where Ross Coulthart interviews Penny Patterson, caretaker of an ape known as Koko. Patterson attained her PhD in psychology from Stanford University in 1972 and has worked with Koko ever since. She says that she has taught Koko how to sign one-thousand words and that Koko is able to understand an additional two-thousand. Coulthart mentions in the video clip that Koko has also created her own signs. For example, she did not know how to sign the word ring, so she signed “finger bracelet” instead; she also called a mask an “eye hat.” When she didn’t know how to sign a word, she created her own sign to be able get her point across. This shows that apes are not simply doing what their caretakers are telling them to do to receive treats, but instead are actually communicating and can comprehend what they are signing. Coulthart also explains why there are still many people in the scientific community

Next animals have comprehension because animals use language that they learn in everyday life. In article one it states,“She tests his comprehension in part by having someone in another room pronounce words that kanzi hears through a pair of headphones.” The test worked and he got

Language is a form of communication and can be portrayed in many different ways not just vocalization, this is shown by those that use sign language rather than vocalization; these humans still have complex language but they lack the necessary organs or capabilities to produce all of the sounds needed for vocal language; similarly, some non-human primates use different interactions as language not just production and combinations of sounds. Non-human primates do not have the ability to vocalize the way humans do because they lack vocal cords, control of the necessary vocalization, and other speech organs, but that does not mean that they cannot effectively communicate through language with other non-human primates or with humans as well.

From ever since I can remember, animals have never been able to hold a discussion with humans, but in the native american myths, animals were worthy of admiration and were given the ability to talk. Before the Europeans ever came to America, Native Americans did not use a written language, but instead spread their ideas and stories through verbal language. The stories they created were passed on from generation to generation through this oral communication. Further, they helped in the development of many motifs which can be seen in our twenty-first century society. The themes portrayed in the stories they told relate to how we live today in more ways than you may think. The themes that derive from Native American myths (the importance of competition,

If humans can communicate, then why can't animals? In my opinion, some animals can learn or use language because they have the capability.

We gather food, we protect one another, we support and raise the young, and none of this would be possible without some form of communication. Monkeys in particular “have evolved many ways of communicating such as visual cues, auditory calls, and even some olfactory signals” (PBS). Visual calls are obviously unable to be here, therefore it must be seen. The “Emperor Tamarin uses a visual call by sticking her tongue out at her mate so he knows she wants a break from holding her young”(PBS). Not all auditory calls are the same, there are various sounds that can be strung to be very long or can be simple and short.

A person communicate different variety of ways, both verbally and non-verbally. Primates and other animals have been communicating without the use of language since long before humans invented verbal communication. Some scientists believe that even today, most communication between humans is non-verbal. Both types of communication differ significantly between genders and across cultures.

In order to get a better understanding of the animal science discourse community, I reached out to a current graduate student at the University of California, Davis. I wanted to interview someone who was getting the experience of working within the community, but was also learning how the community communicates. When working within the department, individuals are to have in-depth knowledge on the study of animals. Without the knowledge, it would possibly be difficult to communicate with other individuals who are dedicating partial time of their lives in getting involved in the care of animals (Liza). That is for the reason that people within the community have a specific language, which they communicate through.

Many species of wildlife continue to be mistreated and neglected even when they show many signs of being intelligent creatures. In the article, “A Change in Heart About Animals” author, Jeremy Rifkin discusses many instances where animals prove smarter than people give them credit for. One of many discoveries evaluated by Rifkin where crows, that were able to manipulate a wire in order to retrieve food. The crow was able to adapt to the situation using its critical thinking skills, similar to humans. Since these crows showed immense skill and have characteristics similar to people they should, like people, be protected and not experimented on. Another humanlike quality shown in an animal, explained by Rifkin, is the ability to communicate with human beings. Koko the gorilla was taught

Like human beings, animals also communicate among themselves through gestures and body movements. Monkeys always carry their

Erickson quotes the naturalist, William J. Long, “that the animals inherit this power of silent communication over great distances is occasionally manifest even among our half-natural domestic creatures” (Erickson, 2011, p. 146). Social interaction could be the key between human and animal interconnection. Many reports have been claimed with regards to humans and their dogs. Their pets knowing when their owners are approaching home or in distress. In Sheldrake study (2000) one report was on an African grey parrot. The owner trained the parrot from 5 months old and by the time he was five he had 700-word vocabulary. His telepathic power allowed him to say what was happening in his owner’s dreams. A study concluded that the parrot scored more hits than would have been by chance with correct answers. Of course, there has been negative feedback regarding the studies, stating that animals

It is as if one says a human who is an experiencing subject of a life must be able to understand and communicate its thoughts. Where do animals fit in? Do we discount them because they do not speak our language and we cannot understand theirs?

If you have a pet like dog, you will think it knows us. They know our expressions and they always can give us a comfort when we are in terrible situation. I think a lot of people often think about do animals know humans’ language? I want to discuss about Do animals have ability to learn language and what is the difference between human language and animal language.