http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2009/09/11/naturally-social-cool-ways-animals-communicate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=naturally-social-cool-ways-animals-communicate Green Design, Sustainable Technology and Environmental Oddities Wed, 23 May 2012 14:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2009/09/11/naturally-social-cool-ways-animals-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-119574 What We’ve Got Here, is Failure to Communicate « Live For the Season Mon, 16 May 2011 19:21:07 +0000 http://webecoist.com/?p=9655#comment-119574 [...] *Prairie Dogs communicate through barking. “Specifically, most prairie dog barking communicates information about imminent threats like hawks, dogs and even humans, and gets as detailed as the size and shape of the potential predators. Even more interesting, prairie dogs from different areas have their own dialects.” [...] [...] *Prairie Dogs communicate through barking. “Specifically, most prairie dog barking communicates information about imminent threats like hawks, dogs and even humans, and gets as detailed as the size and shape of the potential predators. Even more interesting, prairie dogs from different areas have their own dialects.” [...]

]]> http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2009/09/11/naturally-social-cool-ways-animals-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-119171 I hate chickens. « Anguished Repose Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:09:27 +0000 http://webecoist.com/?p=9655#comment-119171 [...] It’s safe to say that it’s very hard to get chickens to shut up. Twenty-four hours before birth, baby chicks make peeping noises in the egg, with the mother chicken responding in soothing tones to provide assurance that everything is alright. In life, chickens learn and communicate more than 20 distinctive calls, including alarm calls when danger is near. Just a few years ago, researchers confirmed that the “tck, tck, tck” sound chickens make while pecking actually signifies the presence of food to other chicken and spurs them on to search for more food. Makes sense, I guess, that an animal that tastes so good maintains its owns exquisite “chicken language” for food. [Read More] [...] [...] It’s safe to say that it’s very hard to get chickens to shut up. Twenty-four hours before birth, baby chicks make peeping noises in the egg, with the mother chicken responding in soothing tones to provide assurance that everything is alright. In life, chickens learn and communicate more than 20 distinctive calls, including alarm calls when danger is near. Just a few years ago, researchers confirmed that the “tck, tck, tck” sound chickens make while pecking actually signifies the presence of food to other chicken and spurs them on to search for more food. Makes sense, I guess, that an animal that tastes so good maintains its owns exquisite “chicken language” for food. [Read More] [...]

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