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Animal Talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language
by
Tim Friend
If animal behavior is mostly instinctual, why do animals need to communicate? Is it possible that there is a universal language spoken and understood by all animals on earth, including humans? Do barks, growls, rumbles, chirps, yips, and meows have communicative meanings?
"No matter what species," writes acclaimed science journalist Tim Friend, "we're
...morePaperback, 288 pages
Published
February 1st 2005
by Free Press
(first published December 30th 2003)
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Some really interesting stuff in here which made me think hard if we're taking enough factors into consideration when we take animals, particularly orphaned birds, into care. I got a bit fed up with him banging on about evolution and at times I wondered what the focus of the book was - but the later chapters concentrated on the reason I picked up the book, which was to learn about the various ways animals communicate.
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A book about animal communication by a journalist, not an animal behaviorist. Still a good read.
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