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If I Could Talk to Animals – A Funny Poem about Speaking Animals

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could speak to animals? Wouldn’t it be amazing? What would you talk to them about? Would you tell others that you can talk to animals? I know I would be more than excited to tell everyone around if I could speak with animals. And why not? Not everyone can do that! I have a poem for you that tells about how I would love talking to animals. Read it out and see if these are the things you too would talk about!

If I Could Talk to Animals Poem

If I could talk to the animals,

Just imagine it,

Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee

Imagine talking to a tiger,

Chatting to a cheetah

What a neat achievement it would be

Learn their languages,

Maybe take an animal degree,

I’d study elephant and eagle,

Buffalo and beagle,

Alligator, guinea pig and flea

I would converse in polar bear

And I would curse in fluent kangaroo

If people asked me,

Can you speak rhinoceros?

I’d say, “of courseros!

Can’t you?”

If I conferred with our furry friends,

Man to animal,

Think of all the things I could discuss

If I could walk with the animals

Talk with the animals

Grunt and squeak and squawk

With the animals

And they could squeak and squawk

And speak and talk to me

Little girl whispering in the ear of a dog

Two Rhinos greeting us

So, how did you like the poem? Didn’t it tell how excited I would be? I want you to imagine a situation where you could do the same. I want you to think about the things you would wish to do if you had such an ability. Take a piece of paper and note down the things that come to your mind when you imagine you can talk to animals. Make sure to make a funny poem out of the thoughts!

FAQs on If I Could Talk to Animals – A Funny Poem about Speaking Animals

1. How to write a poem about talking animals?

It’s easy. Close your eyes and imagine a scene where you can speak with animals. Start a conversation, maybe with a simple hello! Then, move on to some serious business. For instance,

Hey Mister Bunny!

Let’s sell carrots and earn some money!

Viola! You have a little poem there!

2. What can we learn from this poem?

Animals and humans are not meant to talk to each other in the same language, but animals too feel the urge to interact with us humans. They talk to each other like we humans do. We should be considerate towards them and try to understand what they are trying to tell us. We can try to communicate with them physically, if not verbally. They need us around them as much as we need them. So, to build harmony in the world, we must try and interact with the animal kingdom as much as possible and make sure they don’t feel left out in this human-dominated world.

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If i could talk to the animals.

by Lisa Peet

“The massive black hole in our understanding of the creatures with whom we share the planet, as vast and compelling a mystery as the universe, is intolerable, not just because we can’t talk to the animals, but because it reminds us of how we can’t really know any other consciousness, not even those of our species…. It reminds us that each of us is inescapably alone inside our heads.”— Jenny Diski , What I Dont Know About Animals (Yale University Press, 2010)

My dog and I understand each other well. We’ve been together 11 years, longer than a lot of couples I know. But although I am not under any illusions that when I speak to her she’s going to answer, there was a time in my life when you could easily have convinced me otherwise.

As an American child living in Israel during my formative years, I hated the guttural sounds of Hebrew and refused to learn it. It was the late ’60s; no one insisted that language immersion was good for children. Instead, my parents enrolled me in the best English-speaking preschool in Tel Aviv—an Anglican school—and supplied me with a steady stream of books and comics from England, which I consumed one after the other.

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We returned to the States as I started first grade, and I went on to discover American animal books. But something was missing. Books like Albert Payson Terhune ’s dog books, Call Of The Wild , and Black Beauty told of good mute beasts, loyal and ready to serve their human companions, but I wanted communion. I wanted my animals to talk back.

Although I had no way of knowing it at the time, the tradition of articulate fictional animals is rooted in a deep national nostalgia for the Greenwood, the archetypal forest of British lore. The kings of old hunted enchanted stags in the Greenwood; Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest was a version, and the Arden Forest where As You Like It takes place. And the Greenwood is home to the mythical Green Man—a mysterious and leafy being who stood for fertility, nature, and magic. For all the American mythos of celebrating nature and the song of the Plains, animals have always been more a source of food or cheap labor than conversation here. The English got their animals right, as far as I was concerned, and I kept that ideal close to my heart.

But a family trip back to England, he says, changed his life. “I met all my English relatives,” Broun recalls. “I saw my granddaddy’s pauper’s grave, at a little country church in Worcestershire. It disturbed the fuck out of me. It was a mound. No headstone…. I saw my first Aston Villa soccer match, saw London, saw Scotland, and came back to Ohio obsessed with my ties to England.”

Broun attended University College London and Miami University in Ohio, eventually earning an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston. In 2002, the year he began writing Night of the Animals , Broun was a resident fellow at Yale University; he has worked as an editor, reviewer, and journalist, and is currently Associate Professor of English at East Stroudsburg University, PA.

But while the novel—a tale of one man’s odyssey to free the animals in the London Zoo—was written on these shores, “The plain fact is,” Broun says, “I barely thought of Americans.” Night of the Animals , which was published by the U.S. imprint Ecco in July, is set very firmly in a future England and informed by British folk tales, religion, politics, identity, and even vernacular—as well as a dark dystopian vision, black humor, and some beautiful, pyrotechnic writing. “I consider it a British novel through and through,” he says. “although ambitious in a way that’s not quite like a lot of British lit today.”

It reflects Broun’s identification with his family’s working class background too; his father, a machinist, left school at 14 to support his family. “I wanted to tell a huge, authentic English story,” Broun adds, “and accurately portray a vanished and vanishing world and a class of people today who often don’t make it into the British literary scene.”

Broun’s protagonist, Cuthbert Handley, is one of Britain’s many have-nots. At 90—2052’s new 70 or so, thanks to synthetic body part replacement—he is homeless, ill, overweight, addicted to the legal drug Flôt, and deeply disturbed by the disappearance of his older brother Drystan when they were children. He is also gripped by the belief that the animals in the zoo are talking to him, begging him to set them free.

He has a point. Earth’s animal population is dwindling, and as the last repository of “whole” animals, rather than genomic clones, the London Zoo has become the target for the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult, who are readying themselves to die as a massive comet nears the earth’s orbit. The cultists are killing off the world’s animals so that the accompanying aliens will make no mistake as to whose souls to occupy. The zoo is simultaneously “an ark, and a death row prison.” Cuthbert intends to liberate its inmates—and, perhaps, find his long-lost brother.

It’s immediately clear that Cuthbert, blundering through the Zoo’s underbrush late at night with a pair of bolt-cutters and a maintenance dose of Flôt, is clearly not in his right mind. Yet at the same time, he may or may not have inherited what his old-country gran called the Wonderments—special old-time powers, passed down through every other generation, which include the ability to understand animals.

The animal language has been dying out for some time, she tells young Cuthbert and Drystan during a family visit to the countryside. And

“My grandfather used to say that when the animals go quate [quiet], it means Jack in the Green’s right ‘round the corner . . . The Green Man. The Lush One. Robin Goodfellow. Puck. The Christ of Otters.” “Otters? I don’t like otters. I like tigers. Can’t we have tigers?” asked Drystan.

And it’s otters that haunt Cuthbert through the rest of his life, as he becomes less and less functional in the grip of his loss and grief and further in the thrall of his animal visions and his conviction that Drystan is not dead—that someday they will be reunited, and, of all the world’s creatures, it’s otters that hold the key.

Trying to work up the nerve to kill himself became compulsive; he would also try, when he remembered, to “beg forgiveness” from a Christ of Otters. He forced himself to picture this robed messiah of all murdered animals, a gimlet-eyed and long-whiskered Jesus with a long pearly claw on each soft finger.

From his beginnings as a bright and promising young lad, Cuthbert evolves, eventually, into a crazy old man who talks to animals. “Words did not pass through snout, proboscis, or mandible. But nonetheless, the animals asserted themselves toward him. They sent messages, some limpid, some inscrutable, but all appreciable.”

Broun doesn’t see himself as an “animal person” in the traditional sense. “My feelings about animals fluctuate always,” he says, “and my relationship with them has always been kind of convoluted. There’s part of me, a brutal, on-the-farm side, I suppose, that can’t stand when people fetishize animals over people.”

What resonates for him where animals are concerned, Broun explains, is their place in the universe: “I do adore their beauty and spirits. To me, animals are part of God’s creation, and they’re magical—but so are trees and clouds and shooting stars.”

Yet Broun’s language reveals a deep respect for, and attention to, the fishes of the sea and the birds of the air and the beasts of the field. Cuthbert communes with penguins, lions, psychotic chimpanzees, all wonderfully rendered in Broun’s bestiary: a buck’s “great rack spread like a huge bone map of anger.” The zoo’s jackals are “all tangible dog-pieces darting about a sparse pen like small rages on legs.” A mournful gorilla ends up “knucklewalking down the middle of Baker Street, throwing forward his furry black arms, as big and strong as mastiffs.”

Along with its celebration of our fellow inhabitants of the earth, Night of the Animals unashamedly holds up faith as a necessary condition for survival—a character’s belief in being able to converse with animals, and an author’s faith in a weird and wonderful vision. Broun twice rewrote the book almost completely during its 14-year gestation: “I felt like I was being tested or punished or doing penance or something…. I felt like God was on my back, with one foot on my neck, making me work.”

Cuthbert admits that driving his mission is a fierce desire for redemption. He has not always placed the well-being of animals above his own, he admits to Muezza, the wonderfully Machiavellian little sand cat who befriends (and converses at great length with) him, but was cruel and callous to beasts, small children and old men in his youth.

It has destroyed my soul, and damned me to alcoholism, then to Flôtism. I thought that by letting the jackals out and whatnot, and then you too, it might help.

Recovery often calls on belief in a power greater than oneself. Cuthbert’s higher power, of course, is a zoo full of animals. In particular, the Jesus of the Otters has become inextricably bound up in his disordered mind with Drystan’s disappearance and, he is convinced, eventual resurrection.

Given Cuthbert’s own imprinting, his odd theology makes sense (certainly to a reader whose personal deity was once a German shepherd). And if ever there was a man in need of a higher power, Cuthbert is it. His drug of choice, the legal and intensely addictive Flôt, is another royally sanctioned form of crowd control in 2052:

When Flôt was good, it was hands down the best legal hallucinogenic and sedative on earth. It offered more than intoxication, more than a release. It took you rippling across whole new planets of purple-white euphoria.

One of Flôt’s most devious properties is that anyone who successfully manages to kick the drug will experience a second withdrawal some ten years later that is nearly impossible to withstand. Notes Broun, who has 25 years of recovery under his own belt, “I wanted partly to portray the recovery process itself as something that remains precarious and miraculous over the long haul…. Whenever I hear about a great recovery story, my instant thought is, great, but come see me in ten years.”

Night of the Animals is a tale of recovery and redemption, though not the kind we’re used to. In the end, Cuthbert’s mission creates more havoc than liberty. Few of the animals are better off than before. But he does, in fact, free the otters:

[T]he entire romp of the London Zoo’s small species of otter appeared and leaped down through the gap, pouring out in one quivering, shiny river-bottom-colored whoosh. It was as though they were, together, the last and most precious thing in England to be emptied from it, a half-water and half-earth being made of golden-brown jewels and smelling of stolen foreign flowers.

A young police officer named Astrid Sullivan—a recovering Flôt addict who is working a Flôter’s Anonymous program and actively battling her demons—answers the call to investigate a disturbance at the zoo and falls in with Cuthbert despite her misgivings. The two become an unexpected team. And for a moment, as the long night ends—a hallucination? a miracle?—the spirit of the Greenwood makes an appearance, transforming Astrid, briefly:

It resembled Astrid, but it was larger, untamed, like a wild, long-limbed yew tree spotted with tiny red berries. Astrid’s long black hair seemed to have turned a golden green, and floated in the air…sparking little fires from which baby kestrels and whipping adders and speeding tiny stoats burst forth.

Is Cuthbert’s night of the animals an archetypal fable? A hallucination? A miracle? Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, and this may be Broun’s point. What is important is that Cuthbert has made connections—with his beloved animals, and with Astrid, as a true friend—something Cuthbert has lacked all this time.

For it doesn’t matter so much where you place your faith as that you place it at all: in God, in the person standing next to you, or the dog at your feet. What I loved best about the British books I read as a child was how close to the surface of everyday life the mysticism lurked. In the absence of any other belief system, that was more than enough. In the absence of anything Cuthbert might have to hope for in his world, he can talk to the animals. And—because Broun has given us a thoroughly British novel—they can talk to him.

London Zoo sign photo credit: Elliott Brown via Flickr European otter photo credit: opencage.info Green man photo credit: photo credit: Stevebidmead via pixabay

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Turin, once briefly the capital of Italy, is famous today for its coffee, delectable hazelnut chocolate, Fiat cars, Juventus FC and the architectural wonder, the Mole Antonelliana. It also happens to be the city of a reportedly epiphanic moment in the life of multi-faceted German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

On January 3 1889, Nietzsche left the home of his hosts in the Italian city to witness a scene which irreversibly influenced him: a horse being brutally whipped by the driver of a carriage. Nietzsche, in a fit of tearfulness, threw himself onto the horse’s neck to defend it from the blows.

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This incident, an evidential aporia, hovers between legend and reality. Its disputed status has not, however, prevented historians, biographers, filmmakers and writers attaching momentous significance to the event.

Recall The Turin Horse (2011) by Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, or Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). The event has become a moment of originary trauma in the story of Nietzsche’s life, marking the beginning of a descent into madness which would last 11 years until his death in 1900.

Turin: Approaching Animals by poet, novelist, short fiction writer and essayist David Brooks takes the Turin horse incident as its reflective starting point. In the opening chapter, the author ruminates:

What matters … is what Nietzsche said to the horse. Or perhaps just the act of saying itself: the saying and, afterward, the silence.

Why, we may well ask, does empathy and grief for an animal victim of human brutality explain Nietzsche’s descent into coma and madness? On the contrary, Brooks asks, might not this story be read as marking “the onset of a kind of deep sanity”?

Just as a horse bookends the sane and insane periods of Nietzsche’s life, the Turin horse rounds out Brooks’s beautifully written and profound series of provocative meditations on human and nonhuman animal relations.

In contrast to the book’s opening section, the final section, simply entitled “Horse”, asks not what Nietzsche said, but “what the horse said to Nietzsche”. Echoing Wittgenstein’s infamous question about whether we could understand a lion if he or she could speak, the question becomes: if the horse could speak in a human language, what might she or he have said to the German philosopher?

What, Brooks asks, if nothing was said but something was exposed, “like the force and intensity of another animal’s being” or “a profound guilt-in-oneself on realising our complicity in the (ab)use of and mindless cruelty toward that other”?

This thought experiment about what would happen, for better or worse, if we understood what animals were saying points to an ongoing challenge for scholars and writers working at the intersection of animal studies and literary analysis: how to think about animals as animals, rather than as symbols or metaphors to explain primarily human concerns.

Read more: Bias, politics and protests: how human laws constrain and sometimes liberate animals

Questioning human exceptionalism

In this vein of engaged, provocative questioning of human exceptionalism, Turin builds on Brooks’s previous writings about animals, including Animal Dreams (2021), Derrida’s Breakfast (2016) and The Grass Library (2019).

The author declares in parentheses that Turin is not a book about Nietzsche. Yet Nietzsche, the author’s “rescued” sheep, and the operations of language – about which both Nietzsche and Brooks have quite a lot to say – become recurrent points of reference in the 42 sections that make up this compellingly readable book.

Turin is not, strictly speaking, a philosophical treatise, scholarly monograph, or even a qualitative auto-ethnography. Rather, Brooks bends genres to consider some of the most pressing philosophical and applied ethical questions about human relations to other species: language and power, attitudinal conundrums about animal sentience, veganism, welfarism versus abolitionism, animal rescue, the horrors of the animal-industrial complex, the madness of individualism, kangaroo culling, fencing in animals, collateral damage in sustainable gardening, and the reason-emotion binary as grounds of judgement in animal advocacy.

Drawing on a wide range of thinkers and writers – including Peter Singer, Maurice Blanchot, Martin Heidegger, Melanie Joy, René Maria Rilke, W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, among others – Brooks complicates the tropes, arguments and myths that underpin so much philosophically inclined discourse in animal studies.

Can we speak of “a gaze of the ear”? A “gaze of the nose”? What of the cognitive dissonance evidenced in the life and work of a philosopher like Jacques Derrida, whose carnism sits oddly with a slim but influential series of discourses that led to his nomination, in the early 21st century, as forefather of the interdisciplinary theoretical project of post-humanism?

As such, Brooks, ever an accomplished literary stylist, has produced an engaging, and deeply felt book that takes us, as it must given its subject, to some dark places: “holes, pockets of radical and potential incompatibility”.

Thinking, feeling, style

Turin may not be primarily about Nietzsche, but as a theorist of the embodiment of ideas and their inextricable relation to the physical and social, Nietzsche had some very specific instructions about literary style. His beloved correspondent, the Russian-born psychoanalyst, author and essayist Lou Salomé, documented them in her biography of Nietzsche.

The ten commandments of style contained in “Toward the Teaching of Style” (1882) recommended, among other things, that a style

ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it … One must learn to feel everything – the length and retarding of sentences, interpunctuations, the choice of words, the pausing, the sequence of arguments – like gestures.

Turin is the work of a fine writer and poet who knows how to craft sentences that live, affective vignettes that gesture not only towards the horrendous, inconceivable suffering experienced by animals, but towards alternative realities.

Everywhere in this book we find examples of how literary ways of seeing, hearing, thinking and writing can free us to envision how human and non-human relations might be, could be, different.

Read more: In an Australian first, the ACT may legally recognise animals' feelings

Writing for, not just about animals

This brings me to the subtitle: “Approaching Animals”.

As a present participle, in the present continuous (present progressive) tense, “approaching” suggests an action or condition that is happening now, frequently, and may be ongoing. Used as a verb or an adverb, it can refer to the idea of advancing or moving towards, drawing close to something or someone, or the idea of an impending, oncoming, pending, proximate event.

It excludes the idea of attaining, closing down, concluding.

Turin is in this manner speculative, part of an ongoing conversation that approaches some of the more difficult questions about human attitudes towards nonhuman animals, while remaining respectful towards its primary subject: animals of all species.

The book appropriately, therefore, proceeds as a series of conditional wonderings, approximations, tentative expositions and provocations that resist closure. It is informed by an acute recognition that the writer and his readers are language creatures looking out of a human bubble – “the prison house of language”, to appropriate a Nietzschean phrase.

That some sections end with ellipses says it all: we may not have definitive answers to our questions about animals, but what matters is to drop our anthropocentric habit of condescension and to “keep thinking”.

Although it is short, I could not read Turin at one sitting. I felt impelled to pause and think about the questions raised in the vignettes, whether about mental states of particular animals – if animals are self-aware, meta-cognisant, capable of emotion or of caring about others of their kind – or about how I might answer rationalist objections to ethical veganism.

Once read, though, Turin is a book that can be dipped into anywhere and appreciated anytime for its stunning prose in which ethics, rhetoric and aesthetic expression merge: a bit like Nietzsche on a good day, maybe.

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What If Animals Could Talk?

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O ne century ago in the 1915 trenches of World War I, a young engineer named Hugh Lofting was moved by the sufferings of innocent horses and mules drafted into the horrifying vortex of human destruction. Needing something to say in letters home to his small children, he invented a certain doctor to minister to the beasts. This remarkable man could, Lofting explained to his children, talk with animals. He would name his doctor “Dolittle” and place him in Victorian England amidst all that period’s rich discoveries of the living world.

The last century has been the worst in history for relations among humans and between humans and non-human animals. Perhaps we might look ourselves in the mirror and ask whether we should still aspire to talk to the animals—who doesn’t share Lofting’s dream?—or whether we should aspire instead to turn down our chatter and do a better job of listening to what animals need us to hear.

The 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said, “If a lion could talk, we wouldn’t be able to understand it.” He implied that lions inhabit a world unintelligibly different. Yet if a lion could talk, he’d likely bore us with the mundane: the waterhole, the warthogs, wildebeest ad nauseum. Lions’ concerns—food, mates, children, and safety—are our concerns. After all, humans are animals.

Millions of species communicate using body language and instinctive calls. Humans have instinctive calls, too—our distress scream, laughter, crying. Additionally, humans have a brain template for acquiring language . Onto this template we learn Italian, Malagasy, and so on. Chimpanzees can learn to sign things like, “Give me apple” (apes cannot form human-like sounds). But extensive vocabulary with grammar and syntax appears unique to humans. Complex language allows storytelling. Not simply a monkey or bird’s present-tense, “Danger! Snake!” but a human’s ability to convey, “I saw a snake there yesterday; be careful.”

When a human child says, “I thinked,” instead of “thought,” they’re intuitively applying a grammatical rule. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker believes that human brains come preprogrammed with a language instinct to create verbal structure, acquiring grammar and employing syntax. So human language comes as naturally to humans as rumbling and trumpeting come to elephants, howling and growling to wolves, and clicking and whistling to dolphins.

The implications are unsettling. Perhaps we are as truly, deeply, and constitutionally incapable of understanding the richness that other species perceive in their own communications as they are incapable of understanding human conversation. What if their communication modalities are borders we can smudge but never truly cross? “Talking with the animals” may be impossible.

And yet. There’s a little more to it. Orangutans sometimes pantomime what they would like from a human. When the human seems to partially understand their meaning, orangutans repeat gestures. But when misunderstood, an orangutan tries new signals. Asked to find an object that isn’t in their pool, dolphins and sea lions either look extra hard or don’t bother looking. They know that what they’re looking for, and understand whether it’s there. Dolphins can understand the difference between, “Get the ring from John and give it to Susan,” and “Get the ring from Susan and give it to John.” They understand that order can change meaning; that’s syntax—the hallmark of human language.

When someone insists that we cannot know another species’ thoughts because we can’t talk to them, there is a large dollop of truth here. But words are at best a loose cargo net of labels that we throw over our wild and wooly perceptions. Speech is a slippery grip for capturing thoughts. People lie. “I love you,” is enough said, but more reliable if silently shown. Visual arts, music, and dance continue ancestral conversations when words cease.

African elephants have one particular alarm that appears to be their word for, “Bees!” A friend of mine saw impalas run away when they heard elephants scream at a pack of wild dogs; her guide said that impalas never run when elephants are screaming at people or each other. That means elephants say some specific things that impalas understand. Baby elephants have two very different “words” expressing contentment or annoyance. They respond to being comforted by going, aauurrrr, and to being annoyed—pushed, tusked, kicked, or denied their mother’s breast—by going, barooo. Certain rumbles by mothers have the immediate effect of bringing a wandering baby back to her side. It seems fair to interpret them as saying, “Come here.”

Vervet monkey use calls with distinct meanings. In other words: words. If a dangerous cat is detected, the alarm sends everyone up a tree. When a dangerous eagle flies over, the monkeys’ alarm call causes other monkeys to look up and run into ground-cover ( not up a tree). They don’t utter alarms for eagle species that don’t prey on monkeys. A monkey who sees a dangerous snake gives a ‘chuttering’ call that causes other vervets to stand up, scanning the ground for the snake. All told, vervets have words meaning ‘leopard’, ‘eagle’, ‘snake’, ‘baboon’, ‘other predatory mammal’, ‘unfamiliar human’, ‘dominant monkey’, ‘subordinate monkey’, ‘watch other monkey’, and ‘rival troop’.

Titi, putty-nosed, colobus monkeys, and some others add information by the order of calls. If the threat is far-off, Campbell’s monkeys introduce their alarm call by a sort of adjective, a low-pitched “boom” that means basically, “I see a distant leopard and am keeping an eye on it. Just be aware.” Without the boom the alarm means, urgently, “Leopard—here!” They have three call sequences for leopards and four for crowned eagles. When a capuchin monkey in Trinidad left his withdrawing group, came into a tree over our heads, and started breaking branches and throwing them at us, he was clearly communicating, “Go away.” One morning, our guide said he heard a bird known as a motmot saying “snake!” Sure enough, we soon found the excited motmot up in some high branches, fluttering around a Cook’s tree-boa, alerting other birds and blowing the snake’s stealth. Rutgers professor Joanna Burger’s Amazon parrot, Tiko, gives different calls for hawk, person, cat, or a dog in the yard. “I know what’s there,” she tells me, “before I look.”

When I’m at my own desk, I can tell by the barks whether my two dogs Jude and Chula are barking at someone walking past alone or with a dog, or at a delivery person, a squirrel they’ve treed, or each other in mock combat. Our coarse words—“screech,” “bark”—for their nuanced voices and vocabularies hobble our understanding of their understanding of what they mean. It’s not as if they’re not telling us. But we remain tone-deaf, mostly.

We happen to be talkers. But most of what we jabber about is so trivial. Think of the words wasted. Think of the way truly important things can be expressed with open arms, a fingertip, a smile—no need for sentences or syntax. Trillions of creatures survive in highly demanding lives, clearly signaling their intentions, with neither adverb nor gerund. The silent power of true intent.

A breakthrough in translation was recently announced by researchers. Turns out, all species of free-living great apes use gestures to communicate. The gestures used are understood by all members in the group. They’re directed at specific individuals, who understand them, and they’re used intentionally and flexibly .

A woman named Dawn Prince-Hughes, who as an autistic child had difficulty acquiring language, found a kind of identity in the Seattle Zoo with a group of gorillas, eventually getting employment as their care-giver. She calls the gorillas, “the first and best friends I ever had … people of an ancient nation.” When the bonobo Kanzi met Prince-Hughes, he watched her mannerisms for a brief while, then he signed, “You gorilla, question?”

Perhaps the Dolittle dilemma has been miscast. Maybe instead of wanting to learn to talk to the animals, our greater need is to quiet down and learn to listen.

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136 Speech Topics About Animals [Persuasive, Informative]

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Our list of persuasive and informative topics about animals.

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List of speech topics about animals.

The life of deep sea fish.
How to train your dog .
Why are monkeys so good at climbing trees?
The breeding of elephants and hippopotamuses.
Do penguins have long legs?
Why gods shiver.
What alligators eat.
How elephants swim.
Dangerous exotic pets you should not keep at home.
Ancient and Asiatic horse breeds.
The different types of whales.
How animals survive the extreme cold of Antartica.
The difference between dolphins and porpoises.
Why all kids should have pets.
Why snakes are good pets.
Have your pet spayed or neutered.
Why you should own a horse.
Why should you own a dog?
We need to protect dolphins better.
Wild animals should stay wild.
Why save endangered animals?
People should be allowed to own exotic animals like tigers and monkeys.
In order to save the orangutans, we should say “no” to palm oil.
A vegetarian diet is unhealthy for cats and dogs
Should people have pet monkeys?
Children should be taught to take care of pets
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If Animals Could Talk

W hile many of us talk for our pets, including myself, it would be interesting if one day they opened their mouths and actually started speaking. For this concept, I chose a large Bernese Mountain Dog bellying up to the table about to demand the waiter or parent to bring his food. I would imagine this to be a bit terrifying at first, but after that it would just be wondrous and rather cool. That said, I’d have to wonder if I’d be thoroughly surprised by the voice that came out. Would it be anything like what I imagined or something completely different? Either way, I’d love the chance to find out. Our dog, Phineas, for example, sounds a bit like a spoiled kid with a popular Instagram account when we speak for him, but when he writes, as we discovered earlier this month , it’s much more dignified and slightly British. Were he to suddenly start speaking I wonder where on the spectrum his voice would actually lie. If he did start talking it would be extra startling because he’s a barkless dog and is generally silent most of the time, save the sneezes of disapproval. And whether he’s pawing at us or simply staring us down, he never really has a problem communicating. In many ways it’s as though a blend of imagination and charisma has already had the magical effect of making him talk.

When I was a kid, I always wished that my pet hamster, Sparky, could have talked to me. For him, I imagined a low-pitched voice, unexpected for a hamster, and a very slow speech pattern, like Eeyore in Winnie The Pooh, without all of the depressing angst. But, it sadly never happened. I read an article somewhere that said treating out pets with human characteristics was a bad thing in that it can make us miss the reality of what the pet truly needs. I’m not sure I can comply with this entirely as the very act of anthropomorphizing our pets is also how we’re able to empathize with them and not treat them like accessories in our lives, but part of the family. True, though, it’s certainly important to empathize with the true nature of the pet as well. In the case of our Phineas, not only does he speak like a dog might, he’s also rather dog-centric. For example, when we’re watching a show with no dogs in it he says, “Meh, it was okay, but there wasn’t a single good actor. They probably couldn’t afford it.” If we’d like to experience the best form of entertainment television has to offer, Phineas insists it must be Paw Patrol , due to its all-star cast. Philippe and I have only watched Paw Patrol once in French while visiting Paris and to our knowledge Phineas has never even seen it. But, then again, we really have no idea what he does with his day when we’re at work.

Yet, it’s true that when it comes to our pets, we are very different animals. Honestly, I feel the same about various humans at times. In the end, it’s all just a lesson in empathy, that wondrous ability to understand and share the feelings of another living being. While there are certain humans I struggle to empathize with, I’ve always been able to empathize with animals. Animals seem to rarely do things that aren’t immediately explainable, via some primal urge, genetic predisposition or instinct. Humans, however, can do the most horrific things and a host of psychologists are required to sort it all out, often failing in the end to truly understand why. And though we speak our own language, animals have theirs as well. We just don’t comprehend it fully and assume that our own animal language is far superior. I have to think that dolphins probably feel the same way. Perhaps all types of animals imagine their own communication is the best one of all. Dolphins might be mimicking us in their own language, thinking how cute we are in our inability to speak correctly, but how touching are those offerings of fish to make amends for our shortcomings. We’re a wild and diverse universe of living beings and I think it would be a better world indeed, one filled with positive and constructive communication, if animals could talk.

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It would be interesting, but I suspect it might be something like, “Is that a cookie? I like cookies. You don’t want that cookie do you? I haven’t eaten in forever and I might die if I don’t have that cookie.” Animals, of course, do talk. It’s just that so few humans speak animal.

So true! But when I was reading your quote it sounded like something I might say, so now I’m just incredibly confused! 😊😉lol

I think I know this dog. He lives down the street and I’m guessing he does love cookies.

Awesome, Carol! Yeah, I think we can all agree that life is better with cookies! 😃💕

Oh that will be wonderful! And definitely will be a better world 🐶💕 We have so many things to learn from them 💕

So true! 😃💕 Animals have so much to teach us!

Love that dog! Hurry up and bring him one of Philippe’s desserts.

Thanks, Sharon! 😃💕 hehe… I’m too busy trying to convince Philippe now that a Bernese Mountain Dog is simply too large for a city row home. 😉

Beautiful doodlewash!👏👏👏 It seems you deeply love pet animals…My daughter was very fond of paw patrol…even my hubby also liked it. But Mickey mouse and Tom & Jerry are unbeatable….Indian Panchatantra tales, Jataka tales and Hitopadesia are full of animal stories were the animals can talk…

Thanks so much, Anita! 😃💕 I do adore animals deeply! And yes, as a kid, I adored Mickey and Tom & Jerry as well! hehe

Our cat, Kirbie, talks perfectly well. One particular meow means let me out. A bite on the hand means quit petting my belly, I hate that. And a disdainful look means, you don’t really think yelling at me is going to make me get out of this pot of plants, do you. Lol! I’ve lived with animals almost my entire life. I’m fact in thinking about it, I only missed my four years as an undergrad, and the six years we lived in Chicagoland. Almost as soon as we moved here, a cat adopted us. Some days it’s surprising that I don’t hack up a hairball because I’m sure I’ve eaten enough fur by accident to form one.

haha! Yeah, our furry friends are the best! 😃💕 I spent a few short years without them as well, around the same time period. I’m so happy there hasn’t been a gap since!

Charlie M. wants to watch paw patrol now🤪🐶

hehe!! Yay!! 😃💕 They could watch it together! That would be so awesome!

First off, your dog is amazing. He looks like he belongs at the table. Next up, funny you mention Pooh because that is who I started to sketch. However, this morning I might be erasing him because last night we watched a documentary on public tv about Koko the gorilla. I think if any animal was going to talk, it would be her! One last thing, Phineas would be enjoying the Hallmark channel these days. Seems they have jumped on the doggy train with their movies. 😉

Thanks so much, Lori! 😃💕Aww… Pooh or Koko would be awesome… I couldn’t possibly choose! And yay! I produced a Hallmark movie a few years ago and adore that channel and everyone working there! It’s the way the world should be, so I’m not surprised it’s adding more dogs! 😉

Adorable. He looks like he could really tell you a few things! 😊

Thanks so much, June! 😃💕 I’m quite sure he’s about to tell us everything! lol

Thanks so much, Snehlata! 😃💕

Such an eager but patient look on your dog’s face. Love it!!! He does, certainly look like he can talk.

Thanks, June! 😃💕 I like to try to give a little bit of that characteristic to all of the animals I sketch. I think they can talk, we just can quite understand them perfectly.

Well if by look and nothing else he is summoning the waiter…(K)

hehe! yay! That’s exactly what I wanted to convey! Thanks, Kerfe! 😃💕

Charlie says, ” it’s all just a lesson in empathy, that wondrous ability to understand and share the feelings of another living being”

The way to world peace.

I love the tilt of his chin. The whole thing, painting and prose is grand.

Thanks so much, Sarah! 😃💕 Thrilled you enjoyed this. I do believe empathy is the path to world peace. But like most solutions, it’s tough for many people to master.

Just as well she can’t talk to me. I don’t think I can handle the demands for treats and can we walk now? can we walk now? Is it time to walk yet?

Looking at your sketch I now see what you mean about using color for a black dog. I may make an attempt to paint her.

hehe! So true! 😃💕 I’m quite sure if my dog could talk I’d have to cover my ears for all the things he’d request! lol And yay! Awesome! So thrilled this sketch inspired you. Blacks scared me at first, but they’re way more fun when you think of them as just “darks” and play with color!

Obviously this Bernese Mountain pooch is talking to you – and through your portrait of him, to me as well. Beautiful painting, Charlie, made even more charming via the suggested anthropomorphism. He’s have me running to make him bacon and eggs.

Thanks, Sharon! 😃💕I always like to slightly anthropomorphize my animals. If nothing else to add the expression of what I’m currently feeling that day. 😉

Cute read! My pets and I always have conversations about snacks 🍪

Thanks, Tameka! 😃💕 Glad you liked this! Yeah, pets and I share that…loving discussing what my next snack will be! lol

wonderful storytelling work! Such a face on this cuddly bear of a dog!

Thanks so much, Gaeyle! 😃💕 So happy you enjoyed this post!

I’ve never thought of HOW my cats would sound, but I do think of WHAT they would say. One would say, “Enough with the kisses, Mom. And don’t be late with dinner.” And the other one would say, “Play? C’mon, let’s play 24 hours a day. Grab that toy and let’s play. Until I am bored, that is . . . “

hehe! Yeah, I think you’ve captured the mindset of cats wonderfully. I think that’s exactly what they would be saying! 😃💕

I would love to be able to hear my dog talk to me when he was alive. I would exactly what he is feeling and thinks

Yeah, it would be so wonderful if we could chat with our furry friends! 😃💕

Nice read. I love the picture of the dog waiting for its food. I have a cat at home and if he could talk then it would be: ‘Is it food time yet?’ or ‘Let me sleep!!’ Again nice article

hehe! Thanks so much! 😃💕 Yes, my dog would concur that those are the best two things to say in the world!

I love your insights! I’ve always wanted to speak verbally with animals, but at least we still communicate in our own way.

I’ve wondered how our pets would sound as well. I always figured they’d sound like us, but I remember hearing one of our cats sneeze one time and thinking, “Wow, that was kind of nasally and high-pitched. What if that’s what their voice would sound like if they spoke human?” Since I think everyone’s voice tends to shine through when they sneeze, it makes sense but also bothered me because of how weird their tone would sound to my ears if they did speak in a high-pitched, Stitch-like tone.

I loved hearing about Sparky, too, and the way in which you interpreted his voice. That’s so creative, maybe he did the same and imagined what you’d sound like if you spoke hamster! I totally agree with your opinions on dolphins, by the way. It reminds me of the beginning of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, when they sing, “So long, and thanks for all the fish” 😂😂😂

Thanks so much, Mekala! 😃💕Glad you enjoyed this post! Yeah, it’s so fascinating to image what animals might sound like if they could speak! hehe And yay for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… one of my favorite books!! I posted about that one once here – https://doodlewash.com/my-favorite-book/

I love your work. Can you paint my dogs?

Thanks so much! Thrilled you enjoy my work! 😃💕I do this as a hobby, so I don’t often take commissions, but might, when dogs are involved. Just send me a note here if you’re interested – https://doodlewash.com/contact/

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If Animals Could Talk

Alexandra McCoy

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Nov. 8 th , 2005

If animals could talk like us and tell us how they felt, would we then treat them differently? We do so many negative things to animals and assume that they think and feel the way we say they think and feel. We are willing to run tests on them and kill them in cold blood. Many would ask “How can you kill an animal in cold blood?” The same way we can go around and kill another person whom we’ve never met before. We humans feel that because we have the ability to talk and to think logically, that it is okay to do many of the things that we do. We kill animals for us to walk around and look nice in furs, run random tests on them to see how they think and function, and simply just experiment on them for our makeup and chemical products. Many people tend to be inconsiderate of animals and their needs and feelings and we place our own needs and wants first as if we are superior to everything else.

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In Alice Walker’s essay Am I Blue? There is a horse named Blue that lives on a meadow with beautiful grass and plenty of acres to run around on but no one to keep him company or socialize with. The owners decided that they wanted to use him to impregnate another horse. They bring the horse to Blue’s meadow and let them get used to each other so they can make babies. As soon as the babies were born they took the other horse away from blue. Blue was used to the other horse and happy when she was around, but the owners just took her away from him when they were finished having the babies. Blue changed from this sad horse to a horse with “A look of independence, of self-possession, of inalienable horseness”. (632) Blue was happy that he had someone who he could relate with, meaning another horse who he could communicate and would do the same things that he did. But soon after the female horse was impregnated she was taken away from Blue and back home. Blue became more like a wild horse then the friendly one that he used to be. He lost all trust for people and put a barrier between humans and him.

In our society, the pace is so fast that everyone is trying to move forward and get ahead of one another that we tend to forget about the small things. Many people would argue that animals don’t have emotions, while others would argue differently, because when you step on your dogs’ tail he cries, because it hurts. When a person is in the kitchen cooking and drops a pot or something that will make a loud noise the pet will run, because he’s scared. Animals show emotions just like humans do such as Blue in Alice Walker’s Am I Blue? “Blue was like a crazed person. Blue was, to me, a crazed person. He galloped furiously, as if he were being ridden, around and around his five beautiful acres.” (633) When Blue’s owners removed his friend off his land he didn’t care about anything else. He had beautiful land, a nice apple tree, but no one to share it with. He had someone but they were taken away without any thought of how he would feel about that.

We should be more considerate of other beings. Sometimes people express how bad they feel when they see animals being beaten or suffering from the negative results for a chemical test. No progress comes from expressing our feelings about negative treatment, we have to be willing to act upon it and start with small things like not using animals for research for our own purposes. Mark Prigg noted that “MORE than 500 leading scientists and doctors have pledged their support for animal testing in medical research. ” Scientist as well as doctors is trying to argue that it is alright to test animals because we need to make sure the products will not harm humans after being put on the market. If we are the ones who need to products we should be the ones that get the tests ran on us, not the animals.

Walker, Alice. “Am I Blue?” Issues Across the Disciplines. 8 th ed.

Muller, Gilbert H. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. 630-633.

Prigg, Mark. “500 scientist back case for animal testing.” The Evening Standard (London) August. 2005. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Pg. 10 Aug. 2005. <http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=f82aac894ada503e2e283e0f5bc03ff3&_docnum=23&wchp=dGLbVzb-zSkVA&_md5=072488f8e1232e5a224bb17acfa2f56>

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If we could talk to the animals, animal communication systems are fundamentally different from human languages..

Posted January 16, 2015

If you’ve ever shooed a bee away from a sugary drink, only to fend off a whole swarm of bees a few minutes later, you may have wondered if the first bee somehow told the others about your sweet soda. In fact, that’s just what she did.

Your soda will be all the buzz back at the hive.

Animals communicate about four things. They let others in their group know about opportunities for food and threats from predators. They also communicate to build social networks and to attract mates.

But animal communication systems aren’t just simple languages. Rather, there are fundamental differences between the ways that non-human animals communicate with each other and the ways that human animals do. Let’s consider four of these differences.

First, animal communication systems always have a very limited range of expression. Honeybees perform a dance to communicate about the direction and distance to a resource, but they can’t tell what that resource is. So those bees had no idea what a tasty treat was in store for them—and a caffeine buzz to boot!

Vervet monkeys can warn other members of their group about an approaching predator. They even have different alarm calls for leopards, eagles, and snakes. These are their three main threats, and each requires a different kind of evasive action. But there’s simply nothing else a vervet can talk about.

Vervets have a three-word vocabulary

Human languages, by contrast, have unlimited range of expression. A native speaker of a language knows tens of thousands of words. We’re constantly learning new words as we go through life. And as a speech community, we make up new words as the need arises.

Second, an utterance in an animal communication system is always a holophrase. In other words, each vocalization or gesture refers to an entire situation and not to the specific objects and events that make up that situation. So the vervet “leopard” call really means something more like, “Look out, there’s a leopard coming this way!” And the “snake” calls means something like, “Yikes, I just saw a snake in the grass!”

Human toddlers start their language development with holophrases as well. “Ball!” can mean “Give me the ball!” or “Look, there’s a ball!” And “No!” means something like, “I don’t want that.” Even human adults, when overcome with emotion , often resort to holophrases. In fact, the reaction of most humans to a snake in the grass isn’t much different from that of a vervet monkey: “Snake! Ahh!”

Some things still leave us speechless.

Third, animal communication systems generally lack the ability to combine symbols together to express novel ideas. It’s still a matter for further research what a vervet would say if it encountered both a leopard and a snake at the same time. Still, we just don’t see vervets combining symbols to express novel ideas.

The honeybee dance does complicate this issue somewhat. Each honeybee dance will be different, because each time the distance and direction will be different. Still, honeybees have no ability to express any sort of meaning beyond that. It’s this ability to combine symbols to express novel ideas that gives human language its expressive power.

Finally, we can point out one last hallmark of animal communication systems, namely that they are always about the here and now. A vervet “eagle” call is about an eagle flying overhead at this very moment, and not about an eagle it saw last week. When a cow says “moo,” she’s saying, “Here I am, right now,” and not, “See you down by the water trough in half an hour.”

Again, honeybee dance complicates the picture, since she’s telling her hive mates about a resource she found some distance away some time ago. But still, she’s talking about a distance a bee can reasonably fly, and presumably the resource is still there now.

Honeybee waggle dance

Most of our language use also involves communication about the present time and place—“What’s up?” “Not much.” “Hey, watch out for that truck!” But human language allows us to escape the confines of the here and now to talk about the past, to think about the future, to wonder what’s happening on the other side of the planet, and to imagine times and places that never existed.

Modern humans started making their mark on this world within the last hundred thousand years, probably around the time that language became fully formed. This powerful new tool for communicating—and for thinking—enabled humans to transcend the limits of animal life, to bend nature to their will. And then in the blink of an eye, in evolutionary terms, language transported us from the Stone Age to the Space Age.

Seyfarth, R. M., Cheney, D. L., & Marler, P. (1980a). Monkey responses to three different alarm calls: Evidence of predator classification and semantic communication. Science , 210 , 801–803.

Seyfarth, R. M., Cheney, D. L., & Marler, P. (1980b). Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate. Animal Behaviour , 28 , 1070–1094.

von Frisch, Karl. (1967). The dance language and orientation of bees. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Watts, J. M., & Stookey, J. M. (2000). Vocal behaviour in cattle: The animal’s commentary on its biological processes and welfare. Applied Animal Behaviour Science , 67 , 15–33.

Zuberbühler, K., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (1999). Conceptual semantics in a nonhuman primate. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113, 33–42.

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Animals carry a lot of importance in our lives. They offer humans with food and many other things. For instance, we consume meat, eggs, dairy products. Further, we use animals as a pet too. They are of great help to handicaps. Thus, through the animal essay, we will take a look at these creatures and their importance.

Types of Animals

First of all, all kinds of living organisms which are eukaryotes and compose of numerous cells and can sexually reproduce are known as animals. All animals have a unique role to play in maintaining the balance of nature.

A lot of animal species exist in both, land and water. As a result, each of them has a purpose for their existence. The animals divide into specific groups in biology. Amphibians are those which can live on both, land and water.

Reptiles are cold-blooded animals which have scales on their body. Further, mammals are ones which give birth to their offspring in the womb and have mammary glands. Birds are animals whose forelimbs evolve into wings and their body is covered with feather.

They lay eggs to give birth. Fishes have fins and not limbs. They breathe through gills in water. Further, insects are mostly six-legged or more. Thus, these are the kinds of animals present on earth.

Importance of Animals

Animals play an essential role in human life and planet earth. Ever since an early time, humans have been using animals for their benefit. Earlier, they came in use for transportation purposes.

Further, they also come in use for food, hunting and protection. Humans use oxen for farming. Animals also come in use as companions to humans. For instance, dogs come in use to guide the physically challenged people as well as old people.

In research laboratories, animals come in use for drug testing. Rats and rabbits are mostly tested upon. These researches are useful in predicting any future diseases outbreaks. Thus, we can protect us from possible harm.

Astronomers also use animals to do their research. They also come in use for other purposes. Animals have use in various sports like racing, polo and more. In addition, they also have use in other fields.

They also come in use in recreational activities. For instance, there are circuses and then people also come door to door to display the tricks by animals to entertain children. Further, they also come in use for police forces like detection dogs.

Similarly, we also ride on them for a joyride. Horses, elephants, camels and more come in use for this purpose. Thus, they have a lot of importance in our lives.

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Conclusion of Animal Essay

Thus, animals play an important role on our planet earth and in human lives. Therefore, it is our duty as humans to protect animals for a better future. Otherwise, the human race will not be able to survive without the help of the other animals.

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Question 1: Why are animals are important?

Answer 1: All animals play an important role in the ecosystem. Some of them help to bring out the nutrients from the cycle whereas the others help in decomposition, carbon, and nitrogen cycle. In other words, all kinds of animals, insects, and even microorganisms play a role in the ecosystem.

Question 2: How can we protect animals?

Answer 2: We can protect animals by adopting them. Further, one can also volunteer if one does not have the means to help. Moreover, donating to wildlife reserves can help. Most importantly, we must start buying responsibly to avoid companies which harm animals to make their products.

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Animals are all around us, in the forests, oceans, and even in our backyards. They come in many shapes, sizes, and colors, each with their own unique characteristics.

You might have a pet, seen animals at a zoo, or watched them on TV. They are an essential part of our world, providing beauty, companionship, and balance to our ecosystem.

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

Animals are not just creatures that live with us on this Earth, they are our friends, our guides, and our teachers. They share our home, the world. They live in the forests, the seas, the skies, and even our backyards. Animals are everywhere, and they play a big part in making our world beautiful and full of life.

Animals are also very important for our Earth. Bees, for example, help flowers grow by carrying pollen from one flower to another. This is called pollination. Without bees, we wouldn’t have as many flowers, fruits, and other plants. Worms help make the soil rich and good for plants by breaking down dead leaves and other things. Birds eat harmful bugs and help keep our environment clean.

Animals also teach us about love and care. Pets like dogs and cats show us how to love unconditionally. They are always happy to see us and they stay by our side when we are sad or sick. They teach us to be kind, to be patient, and to care for others.

But, animals are in danger. Many are losing their homes because of things like cutting down trees and pollution. Some are being hunted for their skin or bones. We need to protect them. We can do this by not littering, by planting more trees, and by not buying things made from animal parts.

In conclusion, animals are a very important part of our world. They help the Earth, they teach us important lessons, and they make our world more beautiful. Let’s do our part to protect them and keep our world full of life.

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Good day, everyone! Today, let’s talk about animals, our friends who share this planet with us.

Firstly, animals are everywhere! From the deepest parts of the ocean to the highest mountains, from the hottest deserts to the coldest poles, animals live in all kinds of environments. They come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny ants to huge elephants. Some can fly, some can swim, others run or crawl. Isn’t it amazing how diverse they are?

Secondly, animals help us in many ways. Dogs and cats are our pets, giving us company and love. Horses, camels, and elephants have been used for transportation for centuries. Bees help to pollinate flowers, which helps plants to grow. Even worms play a big role in making soil fertile for plants. So, animals are important for both our happiness and our survival.

Thirdly, animals play a crucial role in maintaining the balance of nature. In a food chain, each animal has a specific role. If one animal disappears, it affects all the others. For example, if there are no frogs, there will be too many insects, because frogs eat insects. This shows that all animals are interconnected and depend on each other.

But sadly, many animals are in danger today. They are losing their homes because forests are being cut down, oceans are being polluted, and climates are changing. Many animals are also hunted for their skin, bones, or other body parts. This is called poaching. We need to stop these harmful actions to save our animal friends.

So, what can we do? We can start by learning more about animals. The more we know about them, the more we can do to help them. We can also recycle and reduce waste to keep their homes clean. We can speak out against hunting and poaching. And most importantly, we can show kindness to all animals, big or small.

In conclusion, animals are a vital part of our world. They make our lives better and keep nature in balance. But they need our help. Let’s all do our part to protect and care for animals. Remember, a world with happy, healthy animals is a world that is happy and healthy for us too. Thank you!

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Can Parrots Converse? Polly Says That’s the Wrong Question.

In a cautious new paper, scientists tried to determine whether an interactive speech board might enrich the life of a parrot named Ellie.

Ellie, an 11-year-old Goffin’s cockatoo, tapped the “happy” button on her tablet app when Jennifer Cunha, her owner and a visiting research associate at Indiana University, returned from being away. Credit...

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By Emily Anthes

May 12, 2024

Half a century ago, one of the hottest questions in science was whether humans could teach animals to talk. Scientists tried using sign language to converse with apes and trained parrots to deploy growing English vocabularies.

The work quickly attracted media attention — and controversy. The research lacked rigor, critics argued, and what seemed like animal communication could simply have been wishful thinking, with researchers unconsciously cuing their animals to respond in certain ways .

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the research fell out of favor. “The whole field completely disintegrated,” said Irene Pepperberg, a comparative cognition researcher at Boston University, who became known for her work with an African gray parrot named Alex .

Today, advances in technology and a growing appreciation for the sophistication of animal minds have renewed interest in finding ways to bridge the species divide. Pet owners are teaching their dogs to press “talking buttons” and zoos are training their apes to use touch screens.

In a cautious new paper , a team of scientists outlines a framework for evaluating whether such tools might give animals new ways to express themselves. The research is designed “to rise above some of the things that have been controversial in the past,” said Jennifer Cunha, a visiting research associate at Indiana University.

The paper, which is being presented at a science conference on Tuesday, focuses on Ms. Cunha’s parrot, an 11-year-old Goffin’s cockatoo named Ellie. Since 2019, Ms. Cunha has been teaching Ellie to use an interactive “speech board,” a tablet-based app that contains more than 200 illustrated icons, corresponding to words and phrases including “sunflower seeds,” “happy” and “I feel hot.” When Ellie presses on an icon with her tongue, a computerized voice speaks the word or phrase aloud.

In the new study, Ms. Cunha and her colleagues did not set out to determine whether Ellie’s use of the speech board amounted to communication. Instead, they used quantitative, computational methods to analyze Ellie’s icon presses to learn more about whether the speech board had what they called “expressive and enrichment potential.”

“How can we analyze the expression to see if there might be a space for intention or communication?” Ms. Cunha said. “And then, secondly, the question is could her selections give us an idea about her values, the things that she finds meaningful?”

The scientists analyzed nearly 40 hours of video footage, collected over seven months, of Ellie’s using the speech board. Then, they compared her icon presses to several simulations of a hypothetical speech board user who was selecting icons at random.

“They were ultimately all significantly different at multiple points from the real data,” said Nikhil Singh, a doctoral student at M.I.T. who created the models. “This virtual user that we had wasn’t able to fully capture what the real Ellie did when using this tablet.”

In other words, whatever Ellie was doing, she did not seem to be simply mashing icons at random. The design of the speech board, including icon brightness and location, could not fully explain Ellie’s selections either, the researchers found.

Determining whether or not Ellie’s selections were random “is a very good place to start,” said Federico Rossano, a comparative cognition researcher at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the research. “The problem is that randomness is very unlikely.”

Just because Ellie was not hitting icons randomly does not mean that she was actively and deliberately trying to communicate her true wants or feelings, Dr. Rossano said. She may simply have been repeating sequences she learned during training. “It’s like a vending machine,” he said. “You can learn to push a sequence of numbers and get a certain type of reward. It doesn’t mean that you’re thinking about what you’re doing.”

Ellie bends toward a purple dragon in a children’s book held up to her perch by Jennifer Cunha.

To further probe the possibilities, the research team then looked for signs of what it called “corroboration.” If Ellie selected the apple icon, did she eat the apple that she was given? If she selected a reading-related icon, did she engage with the book for at least a minute?

“You can hand something to a bird, and they’ll throw it or they’ll touch it,” Ms. Cunha said. “But for us it was about, Did she engage with it?”

Not all of Ellie’s selections could be evaluated in this way; it was impossible for the researchers to determine, for instance, whether she was truly feeling happy or hot in any given moment. But of the nearly 500 icon presses that could be assessed, 92 percent were corroborated by Ellie’s subsequent behavior.

“It’s clear that they have a good correlation there,” said Dr. Pepperberg, who was not involved in the research.

But demonstrating that Ellie truly understands what the icons mean will require additional testing, she said, suggesting that the researchers try deliberately bringing Ellie the wrong object to see how she responds. “It’s just another control to make sure that the animal really has this understanding of what the label represents,” Dr. Pepperberg said.

Finally, the researchers tried to assess whether the speech board was serving as a form of enrichment for Ellie by analyzing the types of icons she selected most frequently.

“If it’s a means to an end, what is the end?” said Rébecca Kleinberger, an author of the paper and a researcher at Northeastern University, where she studies how animals interact with technology. “It does seem like there was a bias toward social activity or activity that means remaining in interaction with the caretaker.”

Roughly 14 percent of the time, Ellie selected icons for food, drinks or treats, the researchers found. On the other hand, about 73 percent of her selections corresponded to activities that provided social or cognitive enrichment, such as playing a game, visiting another bird or simply communicating with Ms. Cunha. Ellie also initiated the use of the speech board 85 percent of the time.

“Ellie the cockatoo interacted consistently with her device, suggesting that it remained engaging and reinforcing for her to do so over several months,” said Amalia Bastos, a comparative cognition researcher at Johns Hopkins University, who was not an author of the paper.

The study has limitations. There’s a limit to what scientists can extrapolate from a single animal, and it’s difficult to rule out the possibility that Ms. Cunha might have been unconsciously cuing Ellie to respond in certain ways, outside experts said. But scientists also praised the researchers’ systematic approach and modest claims.

“They are not saying, ‘Can the parrot talk?’” Dr. Rossano said. “They are saying, ‘Can this be used for enrichment?’”

Dr. Bastos agreed. “This work is a crucial first step,” she said. It’s also an example of how the field has changed, for the better, since the 1970s.

“Researchers currently working in the area are not bringing the same assumptions to the table,” Dr. Bastos said. “We don’t expect animals to understand or use language in the way that humans do.” Instead, she added, scientists are interested in using communication tools to “improve the welfare of captive animals and their relationships to their caretakers.”

Emily Anthes is a science reporter, writing primarily about animal health and science. She also covered the coronavirus pandemic. More about Emily Anthes

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