ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Animal Communication, Cetacea, Hominidae
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Animals other than humans communicate but do not refer. Mech on wolves: intensely social, elaborate forms of communication. Wolves social order and expression according to wolves: postural patterns of the behavior involving the entire animal. Face/head, tail, gaze/stare, riding up , bite threat , offering the neck : odor snuffling of the neck, anal/genital presentation/withdrawal, scent marking, scent marking, vocal whimper, growl, bark, howl. Bateson problems in cetacean and other mammalian communication . They communicate in ways that display their relation to one another. But often while they are displaying that they are also talking about something else. So far, we have considered animal communication in wolves and cats. The hominidae (also known as great apes) form a taxonomic family, including four extant genera: chimpanzees (pan), gorillas (gorilla), humans (homo), and orangutans (pongo) . Chimpanzees are more related to humans than they are to other gorillas.
