Animals also talk

Author: (USA) Tim Flannery
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Everywhere you look, you will see that animals care about sex, shelter, who is the boss, and what's for dinner. Tim Flannery's Animals Are Talking offers readers a rich and delightful book. His book shows that modern science has surpassed the era of Dr. Dolittle. We now have a great deal of understanding of animal communication, so we fully agree with Tim Flannery's words: animals may not have language, but they have a lot to say.
—Frances De Waal, Chimpanzee and Bonobo
The book is filled with clever experiments, anecdotes, and a joyful exploration of the diversity of animal behavior.
—Discover
The book creates a Rosetta Stone that helps us understand what animals are saying.
—The Boston Globe
Is there such a thing as a universal language used and understood by all animals, including humans? Is human language truly unique, as linguists and philosophers have believed for centuries? Is human language also highly developed in the way other species communicate, and does it include these forms of communication? Do you want to know what wild animals are talking about? What are your dogs, cats, birds, fish, and horses really saying? Animals Are Talking is an authoritative and accessible read on animal communication. Based on the latest scientific developments, it not only answers the questions above but also addresses many other thought-provoking ones.
Based on a decade of field research, Tim Flannery helps us uncover the secrets hidden behind the eyes of animals, their sounds and scents, their displays and movements, through interviews with renowned land and marine scientists, journalists, and science writers who report on the animal world.
There are approximately 10 million different species in the world, all communicating through sound and scent, using their unique mysterious signals. However, Flannery reveals that animals and humans can communicate effortlessly because all animals speak a common non-verbal language: the universal language of the animal world.
Through stories and signals from animals, Animals Are Talking reveals the mysterious ways of animal communication. This is not only crucial for understanding birds and bees, dogs and dolphins, ourselves, and other primates but also vital for the survival of our planet.