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Animal communication is a rapidly growing area of study in disciplines including animal behavior, sociology, neurology, and animal cognition. Many aspects of animal behavior, such as symbolic name use, emotional expression, learning, and sexual behavior , are being understood in new ways.
Acoustic communication is widespread in both aquatic and semi-aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates, [5] with many species capable of using both infrasound and ultrasound for communication. As sound travels faster and over a larger distance in water than in air, aquatic animals can use sound signals for long-distance communication while ...
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
In her 2008 book Barking: The Sound of a Language, [18] Turid Rugaas explains that barking is a way a dog communicates. She suggests signaling back to show the dog that the dog's attempts to communicate have been acknowledged and to calm a dog down. She suggests the use of a hand signal and calming signals called 'splitting'.
Elephants are the terrestrial animal in which the production of infrasonic calls was first noted by M. Krishnan, [6] later discovered by Katy Payne. [7] The use of low frequency sounds to communicate over long distances may explain certain elephant behaviors that have previously puzzled observers.
Frogs and toads produce a rich variety of sounds, calls, and songs during their courtship and mating rituals. The callers, usually males, make stereotyped sounds in order to advertise their location, their mating readiness and their willingness to defend their territory; listeners respond to the calls by return calling, by approach, and by going silent.
A spectrogram of the soundscape of Mount Rainier National Park in the United States. Highlighted areas show marmot, bird, insect and aircraft noises. Soundscape ecology is the study of the acoustic relationships between living organisms, human and other, and their environment, whether the organisms are marine or terrestrial.
Zoomusicology (/ ˌ z oʊ ə m j uː z ɪ ˈ k ɒ l ə dʒ i /) is the study of the musical aspects of sound and communication as produced and perceived by animals. [1] It is a field of musicology and zoology, and is a type of zoosemiotics.