We love to talk. Whether it’s a friendly chat, a meaningful conversation, or even a heated debate, words and sounds are at ...
It’s a question that has fascinated researchers and thinkers of various traditions. Animals and humans have always interpenetrated and shaped each other’s worlds, but the project of understanding how ...
Flanagan, Jean, Glassman, Sarah, Rogers, Melissa, and Duty, Heidi. 2019. How Can Animals Use Their Senses to Communicate? In Smithsonian Science for the Classroom.
Numerous diverse animals use scent to communicate with individuals of their own or other species. They may intentionally deposit scent containing various pheromones by urinating, defecating, or by ...
Andrea Quattrini receives funding from Smithsonian Institution, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Office of Ocean Exploration, and the National Science Foundation. Danielle DeLeo does not ...
We talk about what an ear even is, how ears have evolved, how they work, and some of the cool ways animals have tweaked their ears to work for their lifestyle. We talk about what an ear even is, how ...
Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...