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Scientist have been debating whether or not communication between animals is similar to humans. Many people think it is similar to humans and others don't. I think communication between animals is similar to humans, although it is more complex. Both forms of communication serves the same purpose. This can be proven by bacteria, honey bees, birds and chimpanzees.
Language is used to help living things refer to locations of things. Humans use words, symbols and syntax to communicate. “No other animal communication system puts together messages using syntax, except honeybees” (Doc 9). Honey bees use syntax to describe the location of pollen by “orienting their dance in relation to the position of the sun, and by calibrating the amount of the dances movement”(Doc 2). This use of syntax is like humans because the bees create new patterns of dance to explain locations. Although humans use more complex forms of communication, it is used to describe locations of things. Bacteria also use ways to communicate location. “Some classes of bacteria secrete distinctive organic molecules, for which they have specialized receptors. This apparatus allows the bacteria to detect the presence of others of the same species, a system known in the literature as quorum sensing” (Doc 1). Bacteria uses these secretions to tell others where they are and this allows them to group together for better survival. Humans also secrete pheromones that others can unconsciously smell. These are only a few ways animals use communication to help locate things.
Animals can also use sound to communicate like humans do. Birds are a good example of this. The type of sound they produce, indicates what they are trying to tell the other birds. “The birds have two types of sig...

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...gs” (Doc 8). Kanzi can use both human language with symbols and can also communicate with his sister in a way she understands.
This proves that animals communicate similarly like humans. Different species communication varies in how it is used and the complexity of it. Bacteria use the most basic form of communication known as quorum sensing. Honey bees use a more complex form by dancing to explain distances and locations. Birds are more complex with calls and songs telling each other of danger or mating calls. Some birds are smart enough to learn limited human language on top of their own to communicate their own needs. The species with the most complex form of language is chimpanzees. They are able to communicate with their own primitive form of language and learn other languages like our own. Different forms of animal communication is similar to that of humans.

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