Someone posted this and others made fun of it, so she withdrew the question!!!! I thought it was brilliant. The people who made fun of it have no imagination and should have been reported as abusers and removed.
2006-10-22 12:05:20 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The reason animals can't talk is because they would have to learn English (or your native tongue) for you to understand them. The truth is many animals are communicating all the time. Elephant have been know to put out super sonic low noises that travel 500 miles, but that's not English!
2006-10-23 13:05:48 · answer #1 · answered by nomatt3r 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To answer this question you really have to define "talk." Do you mean communicate with us? Because if that's what you mean then they can "talk." When a burglar comes into your house and your dog starts barking he is alerting you and warning the burglar that this is his house and he's not welcome. Or if you upset a cat and they arch their back and hiss, you automatically understand that the cat is angry even though you may have never been mauled by a cat before. Or if a dog yelps in pain you associate that sound with pain and you know he's probably hurt. Essentially animals don't talk like us because our speech is physically impossible for most of them(vocal chord and brain wise) and because it wouldn't benefit them.
2006-10-22 22:15:55 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Pants 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Animals communicate very well. Just not with words and language that you may understand. a few examples:
the elaborate dance bees do to communicate the location and distance to food;
whale songs are heard over entire oceans;
birds sing to mark territory and compete for mates;
when you've got a stomach ache and your cat sits on your stomach and purrs.
2006-10-23 07:58:09 · answer #3 · answered by wq.alpha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animals CAN talk. Their voice range and normal language could conflict with the languages you know that you expect them to learn though. Their vocal cords and mouths may not handle the sounds and length of time a sound is held you would like. You also have to take into account their age.
There are birds with long life spans (some times longer then human life expectency, so they out live their first owner) that can learn many Human languages.
My cats' breed is some times good at mimicry. My male cat has learned English words but tries to say them in human voices that draw more attention. My female cat likes to use squrrial, chipmunk, and bird languages to lure them in and then tries to pounce them (but hits the glass).
My male cat had learn he gets more attention sounding like my female cat when noone can see him because people come running to check on her,.. but find him. My female cat this year has been trying to sound like my male cat because she has been getting alot of positive attention and she has been trying to pick up on dog languages from watching them on TV.
And then there are Primemates that learn Sign Languages. They are communicateing in a human language,.. they just can not master verbal human. They also operate computers to speak English or the language most used in the country they are in, much like people that cannot speak and are partially Paralized do in Wheel Chairs.
2006-10-22 19:20:27 · answer #4 · answered by sailortinkitty 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is shows how dumb the human race really is, if people presume (no insult to you or anybody) that animals have no language is just stupidity. First: they have much different vocal cords so they can generate their sounds not ours.
Second: Animals can: through sign language, yerkish, lexgrams, symbols. And Alex the parrot for example he seems to show a demonstarted abilty to understand and speak language.
2006-10-22 20:12:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We communicate, we define it as talking, animals communicate on different levels whether it audible to the human ear or not (ultrasonic) they communicate just not in the same way as we do, its almost like how you cannot understand a language that u cannot speak.
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2006-10-23 08:42:20 · answer #6 · answered by Mäŋđŷ Můғғїŋ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animals use a series of noises and body language to portray what they are communicating, My dog can speak to me without saying a word. when he sits at the door with his nose on the handle i know he wants to go out, when he brings me toys i know he wants to play, when he barks at people he is letting them know that this is his house and they are not allowed in it if he doesn't know them.
I can hear the difference in pitch in his bark and know what it means. I can tell the difference in noises my falcons make as to what is happening outside and so can my dog, when one of my falcons start calling because there is someone out side my dog runs to the door to see what is happening.
So yes animals can talk, you just have to learn their language.
2006-10-23 07:28:54 · answer #7 · answered by Aquila 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, their brains are smaller and they don't have as much memory space to keep vocabulary and the related definitions stored and accessible for quick use, so they have a few ways to convey emotions and that's about it. They cannot talk though in the sense of relating ideas and thoughts.
2006-10-22 19:17:37 · answer #8 · answered by teh_popezorz 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Most don't have the physical apparatus to speak and more importantly, their brains aren't developed enough to support speech.
Doesn't mean they can't communicate in other ways.
Aloha
2006-10-22 19:14:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they are talking in different way like sound and pheramones. but they cant do verbal communication , its unique to human beings
2006-10-23 07:41:58 · answer #10 · answered by NR 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋