9 Weird Ways Animals Communicate
We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!
Demon Mole Rat images: http://www.wired.com/2013/10/head-banging-demon-mole-rats-just-want-to-be-left-alone/
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Sources:
Elephants:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/cyclotis/language/infrasound.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0303_040303_elephants.html
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june1/elephant-052505.html
Tarsiers:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/02/tarsiers-communicate-secret-speech
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/01/27/rsbl.2011.1149
Prairie dogs:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/132650631/new-language-discovered-prairiedogese
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/catch-the-wave-decoding-the-prairie-doge28099s-contagious-jump-yips/
Mole rats:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/headbanging-comes-to-the-golan-heights-israeli-mole-rats-thump-their-skulls-to-keep-in-touch-writes-1537952.html
Caribbean sperm whales:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150908-sperm-whale-culture-vocalizations-animals-oceans-galapagos-science/
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-caribbean-sperm-whales-regional-dialect.html
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/1/150372
White rhinos:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/everything-you-didnt-know-about-animals/videos/rhino-poop-communication/
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-014-0810-8#/page-1
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213000110
Caribbean Reef Squid:
http://www2.clarku.edu/departments/biology/biol201/2010/erross/reefsquid.html
http://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/geol/fachrichtungen/pal/eigenproduktion/Band_03/05.pdf
http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=286
Coral grouper:
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/29/fish-uses-sign-language-with-other-species/
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n4/full/ncomms2781.html
Singing caterpillars:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0094341 http://www.academia.edu/18275464/Behavioural_aspects_of_adoption_of_Maculinea_caterpillars_by_Myrmica_ants
