Sentence examples for animal language from inspiring English sources

Here Talbot talks about what Pepperberg's research reveals about animal language and cognition, with samples of Alex speaking.

They believe that the study of animal language and gestures could shed light on a possible protolanguage stage in human development.

When her owners' four-year-old kid was viciously attacked by a neighbour's dog, Tara ran in like a boss and told that dog in animal language (biting) that under no circumstances was he going to devour her human brother.

At the Seti Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institutete, founded by Frank Drake to continue his work on life beyond Earth, Drake's colleague Laurance Doyle has attempted to quantify the complexity of animal language here on our home planet.

As Gregory Radick writes in "The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate About Animal Language" (2007), the idea of animal cognition "came to be regarded as belonging to the sentimental... nineteenth century".

While claims about animal "language" remained controversial, by the 1960s field researchers like Goodall had begun putting a sturdy empirical scaffolding around the idea that chimpanzees were our close cousins behaviorally, and perhaps our superiors morally.

"I also work in German, Spanish and Russian, not to mention the animal languages," he said, deadpan.

Among them are: being self-interpreting (the way in which human beings understand themselves forms a significant part of their identity); being language animals (language mediates their relations to others, to the environment, and to themselves); and having identities that are constituted through dialogue.

Seton's intention in writing his stories was to "freely translate" the animals' language into English, as they "have no speech as we understand it".

In the aftermath of the conference, an aura of failure and even chicanery clung to animal-language studies.

Called "The Clever Hans Phenomenon: Communication with Horses, Whales, Apes, and People," it was convened by the semiotician Thomas Sebeok, who invited a magician, the Amazing Randi, and an expert on the psychology of circus animals to make the point that animal-language studies involved an element of deception.