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Category: Animal Communication

Misreading Dog Communications Common, Dangerous: New study

Important new research reveals how frequently kids (and their parents) misread the signals, body language and facial expressions of dogs … More

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The Elephant as Person

A fascinating impending study of elephants to test the plausibility of personhood…   The elephant as a person aeon Have … More

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Horses Snort to Say They are Digging It

Thanks to some new research we now know that when horses snort a lot they are communicating that they find … More

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Dolphins use names to identify, communicate with other dolphins

What’s your ‘dolphin name’?  A new scientific study indicates that like humans, dolphins use ‘names’ to identify and communicate with … More

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Baboons Worked as a Team to Escape Vivisection, BioMed Facility

A screaming example demonstrating these sentient creatures are far too intelligent to be used in this way. Baboons Work Together … More

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What are Dolphins Saying? New Research May Shed Light

Scientists have struggled to understand dolphin vocalizations, but new computer tools to both track dolphins and decode their complex vocalizations … More

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Parrots have their own comedy club, say researchers

A team of European scientists has found that a playful mood can spread between the mountain parrots much as it … More

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Baboons can make human-like speech sounds

This is a great discovery. Now we can work on getting them to actually tell us what it feels like … More

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Horses Communicate Effectively when they Need Help: New Study

If they are paying attention, humans who care for animals know that their non-human animal counterparts can communicate their needs … More

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Dolphin Convo Confirmed say Scientists

Two dolphins have been recorded having a conversation for the first time after scientists developed an underwater microphone which could … More

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Orangutan Reproduces Human Sounds

Published on Wednesday in Scientific Reports, a Nature publication, researchers from Britain, Germany and the United States provided evidence that … More

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Can Wild Animals Communicate with Humans? Yes, and now there is proof.

Of course many people within the animal welfare and animal rights worlds already know that animals can communicate with humans–if … More

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