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In the text “Animal communication ”the author  explain the difference betwen human and animals communication in terms of language used to communicate. he started defining communication,”as a process in wich information is trasmitted from a source –the sender to a goal – the receiver”.thinking in human nature, first he made many questions about animal communication and human communication and what make it diferent. After he explained what language is and why we use it, he make us understand that all animal can communicate but only human beings have language. Also for better understanding  started talk about  communication and animals,characteristics of animals communication and language, apes, humans  to show the significant definition of  human nature.

First of all, he mentioned five steps that this process envolves to show everyone that “all communication uses signals and symbols, verbalize the message write or miming it,delivere symbols through a médium perceptual processing of the symbol by the receiver and decoding of the symbol to obtain the information”.according to the defenition of communication in human communication we can see that the communication occured but in the animals case we can’t see it because they only use sygnals or symbols, in another wise you can fell it by seeing in animals behavior ”thus he learned that a specific dance translated into english might say,this quality food is located at a distance 140 meter,…according to Von Frisch”. Analizing  the system of animal comunication, he use many characteristics to explain it. Like for exemple, many animals howl, twitter or sing often they can not vary a message maybe only slightly. they have a quite limited,comparing with human communication are stereotype.

Also some animals have their communicative behavior handed genetically and all that come after must learn their system (like father like soon). Finally studying the significant advance of animals communication raised another question about our ability to use language “by Tedious observation, the apes could communicate in a fairly restricted manner with their human collegues by using vocabular with many symbols. Language is a form of communication but it has never been very well defined. homo sapiens may be the first species able to teach language and the intelectual development of other species and the humanity is influenced by it.”man may not be God,but human may have the power to bestow on other species what is perhaps the most godly gift of all –language”.

Communication is a process in which information is transmitted from a source to a goal. bee communication is interesting in that it is a system of spontaneous animal communication that can be reliably translated into human language. Animal communication may be learned or innate, or a combination of the two.human communication is assumed to have both learned and an innate componente.some studies with apes have indicated that these animals may be capable of learnig language.the evidence rests on their ability to grasp diferente types of statements, to innitiate conversation, and to use statement they had not learned through training.nevertheless, recent challenges in these claim show that our knowledge of ape language is far from complete.

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