Informative Speech: Animal Communication

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Kouassi Cedric-Arnaud Dr. A. Walker SPCH 1101 September 27th, 2012 Informative speech Animal communication We may start in saying that communication is such a big word to talk about language. What can we infer by language? Language is the set of all ways, as many as they are that allows the transmission of a message from a point A to a point B. It is in this context that we may introduce the fact that also animals know some things about how it is possible to communicate to each other. It is possible to categorize and understand the three ways animals communicate in order to express their feelings, need, happiness and others. Those three ways are the body languages, smell, and sounds. Many animals, including humans, use body language…show more content…
Elephants use a sound with a very low pitch to talk to one another over distances of up to 10 miles. Whales and dolphins both use sound to communicate with each other, and both are capable of producing pitches that humans cannot hear. Dolphins can create sounds over the wide range of 18,000 to 23,000 hertz. Birds also use sound to communicate, chirping to alert other birds to their presence in a given territory. Communication between species can play important roles as well. One study suggested that the reason Madagascan spiny-tailed iguanas have well-developed ears -- despite the fact that they do not communicate vocally -- is so they can hear the warning calls of the Madagascan paradise flycatcher. The two species have nothing in common except for the fact that they share a general habitat and raptors like to snack on them. So, when an iguana hears a bird raise the alarm among other birds, it likely knows to be on alert for incoming predators, too. However, as noise pollution interferes with animal communiqués all across the globe, many animals' ability to communicate effectively comes under fire. Increased shipping traffic over the last century has dramatically affected the transfer of whale song around the ocean basin. Studies have found that songbirds, too, suffer from noisy (albeit terrestrial) urban environs. Then, some species…show more content…
They have so many different ways to do that for expressing a lot of characters, feelings, or and also alerts to their group and families. All the studies that have been used and made by doctors, primatologist, and ethnologists contribute in the goal of making us understand the three essential communication ways used by animal, which are the body languages, smell, and sounds. Some researchers are still in the quest of finding new evidences of animals’ communications and some started asking themselves if is there a possibility that they reach the stage of talk to us through the

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