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Animal communication and language?
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What systems do animals use to communicate?
Chemical
80%
Species recognition
70%
Why are visual signals useful?
Honest
70%
Gould and Towne 1987 described what communication in bees as 'only exceeded in complexity by humans'?
Waggle dance
70%
Bonobos and Chimpanzees use how many manual gestures?
31
70%
What type of learning are the dolphins showing?
Recognition learning
70%
Hockett 1960 created 13 different criteria for language, what animal only satisfied the criteria?
Humans
70%
Gardner and Gardner taught how many signed words to Washoe?
250
70%
How many words was Koko the gorilla thought to understand?
2000
70%
Why do animals communicate?
Attract mates
60%
Repel predators
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Warn others
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Visual
60%
Choe et al 2012 showed that the sex-
pheremone in nematodes is what?
Time sensitive
60%
Zahavi 1975 stated that only the fittest peacock males could overcome the costs of the tail, this hypothesis is called what?
Handicap hypothesis
60%
Seeley 1985 found that bees alter their what in response to the sun?
Angle of waggle dance
60%
Captive chimpanzees produced what in response to different types of foods?
Distinct grunts
60%
Chickens produce what 2 distinctive what?
Alarm calls
60%
And what are the 2 things?
Aerial alarm
60%
Ground alarm
60%
Why are they useful?
Elicit appropriate response
60%
Why is this?
Dangerous to reveal location
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Harvey 2008 found that dolphins have what for individual recognition?
Signature whistles
60%
Why is this?
Leave pod
60%
Macphail 1982 said what about language?
Unique to humans
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Rumbaugh et al 1986 taught what to Kanzi?
Symbols
60%
Kanzi had a similar level of speech to what age of human child?
2 year old
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Why can't apes learn to speak like humans?
No descended larynx
60%
Maintenance of species bonds
50%
What is the problem with communication?
Reveal self to predators
50%
Animals perform signals with opposing meanings and forms, what is this called?
Principle of Antithesis
50%
Aversive
50%
Riley et al 2005 found evidence for what about the bee communication?
Observers get instructions from dance
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Evans, Evans and Marler 1993 found what about roosters?
Don't call if alone
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When the aggressive 'wrr' sound was played to Vervet monekys without a group, what was seen overtime?
Habituate
50%
Gestures
40%
What 2 forms can chemical signals take?
Attractive
40%
Show genetic quality
40%
Vocalisations
30%
Greene and Davis 2005 found out what about chickadee alarm call?
Amount of dees indicate size of predator
30%
What was found about male calves?
Call similar to mother
30%
Signal information about your environment
10%
Stereotyped in form
10%
What are elements of communication?
One animal influences the behaviour of others
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