Do they all understand each other or do dogs only understand dogs and birds only understand birds and etc. or can dogs understand elephants or whales understand sea horses?
2007-02-26 14:39:56 · 8 answers · asked by Nanook~Maybe I need a longer Name?~ 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
i don't know because i'm not animal..maybe they understand each others..
2007-02-26 14:51:37 · answer #1 · answered by Imran Syah 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Animals communicate most easily with members of the same species. This is largely instinctive.
Animals usually can understand, to some extent, the communications of other species that are not too distant from them. This is partly instinctive, but they may also learn from experience the meaning of another species's communication. This is certainly the case with household pets. They have some instinctive understanding of human communication (gruff yelling means anger, smiling means pleasure), plus they learn to understand more. Cats and dogs learn to understand each other better as they live together.
I once had a large Chinese water dragon, a big lizard. I let him out of the cage one day, and he went straight over to where my dog was lying on the floor. The lizard stood in front of the dog and bobbed up and down. In lizard language this means "go away." Dogs don't do this. However, the dog looked thoughtful (the same expression she would get when I was trying to teach her a new command). After a few moments, she hesitantly stood up and walked away (I could just hear her saying, "...I think this is what he was telling me to do...") Somehow she understood the meaning even though it is not part of dog communication....
2007-02-26 15:42:15 · answer #2 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think animals understand each other, there have been cases where say a female dog that has just had a litter of puppies and theres an abandon kitten whoes, sometimes the female dog, will adopt that cat as their own and even lit it feed. I've read about a situation like that more then once.
2007-02-26 14:48:25 · answer #3 · answered by Linds 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In a certain way.
Body language and pheramones are a key in this. Body language is important since it gives other animals the information that they are trying to get across. For example, a gorilla bangs his chest and roars.....angry and other animals will run away. Pheramones released from animals allow the other animals to become either infatuated or angry. They enter the nose and enter the brain in which different enzymes are created to create the mood response. Pheramones are even in human cologne and perfume.
2007-02-26 15:23:17 · answer #4 · answered by blink2k626 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Animals communicate with their own species through body language and noises. If 2 species have different habits, then they can't understand each other.
e.g. A cat waving its tail means its annoyed, so a dog (for which tail wagging is being friendly/happy) would misinterpret this as the cat wanting to play.
2 species would only be able to understand each other if they had shared body language.
2007-02-26 15:03:36 · answer #5 · answered by HotGurrlz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're wrong, we humans don't understand each other at all, if we did, all the wars, killing and hatred wouldn't be so!
2016-03-29 02:22:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only do animals understand each other but they often help each other against their natural enemies.
2007-02-26 15:03:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
if a grawling, barkng, angry dog charges you do you have some understanding of that animal?
but do animals have a universal language, no...just no
2007-02-26 15:54:23 · answer #8 · answered by dane hoy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋