1. A giraffe’s habitat consists mainly of savanna and dry open woodland. They prefer to live in warm areas with tall grass to run wild and move freely. They are considered herbivores so they eat leaves off of trees, twigs, shrubs, and mimosa(Australian tree with flowers). A majority of giraffe’s easily adapt to environments that meet their needs. These animals don’t necessarily have predators because of their size. It’s very rare that a large lion pack takes one down. Studies show that they don’t have any animals as their prey.
2. The adaptations infrasound is used by animals including giraffes to communicate with others. This is at such a low level of volume that not even the human ear can hear it. The normal limit for humans hearing is 20 Hz(hertz) and infrasound vocals goes beyond 20. There is no era when this adaptation was discovered but many decades ago after hundreds of hours of listening to recordings, sounds were picked up by the recorder. Other studies show that infrasound communication could possibly result from large volumes of air being forced up their necks and channeled through hollow bones. Many animals including land and sea animals use infrasound to contact others for a variety of reasons.
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Infrasound adaptation has been an advantage to giraffes and other organisms. For instance, it becomes useful for them to communicate in the open savanna at long distances. Even though giraffes do have the advantage of being tall and can see miles ahead, vocal communication could still be useful. Such as contacting individuals, to let them know them where they are and to keep up with movements of other giraffes. Likewise, this adaptation is also used to give a early warning alert of danger such as predators or natural
In “Roars, Snorts, and Infrasounds there are two main ideas: you should not kill elephants for their tusks and ivory and you can tell when elephants are talking and tell them to get away from villages using infrasounds. Many scientists like Katy Payne have very hard jobs; they have to trudge through mud, tolerate the excruciating heat, and have the stomach for the sweat bees crawling all over them. From high platforms scientists observe elephants in their natural habitat. They stay there for hours on end. The scientists spend lots of time listening through ARU’s. An ARU is autonomous recording unit. Payne was one of the first scientists to discover how to communicate with elephants through infrasounds. As a result of hunters of elephants the
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Koalas are arboreal mammals, meaning that they live in trees. They live in eucalyptus trees and feed on their leaves, which are poisonous to most animals. A koala’s home is decided by two main factors: the presence of other koalas and eucalyptus trees. They can eat other tree leaves, but that usually occurs only when eucalyptus leaves are absent (Crawford n.d.).
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In the article published in PLOS Biology, the researchers hypothesise the communication similarities could be a relic from the most recent common ancestor the great apes share with humans.
Language is commonly held to be the province of humans, but other inhabitants of earth possess their own forms of communication. Birds, dolphins, and whales are some of those that have a language. Primates also use vocal communication with each other. Their utterances have varied uses and volumes, with each primate’s voice being distinct just as human voices are. These unique calls have given researchers insight into the social workings of primate groups. The very fact that primates have a language offers insight into the evolution of language and calls into question what the term human truly means.
The text “The Domesticity of Giraffes” is a poem written by Judith Beveridge. It is based upon the concept of caging animals, specifically giraffes, and the negative effects of keeping animals in captivity.
Giraffa camelopardalis. Better known as giraffes, these animals have been a great attraction to many zoos over the course of time. With their gentle ways and calm approach there is a reason why they are loved by many. When you look at captive giraffes there does not look like there are any physical problem with them. However, there are many that we do not see. In captivity they face issues that they have to deal with such as teeth, bones and how they sleep. They also deal with stress and anxiety in captivity. In the wild they face problems such as predators and parasites. According to The Animal Files giraffes tend to live longer in captivity thirty-two to forty years versus fifteen to twenty-five years in the wild. The question
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Killer whales communicate by a series of clicks and whistles called vocalization. Each pod, or family, has their own unique language. This gives whales the ability to identify their own pods. Orcas have a brain that is about five ti...
Human languages and animal communication systems have been studied immensely, and it is intriguing to study how similar animal communication systems, such as those of elephants, are to human languages. Elephants have several methods of communicating, including acoustic, visual, tactile, seismic, and chemical communication (Acoustic Communication). The acoustic method of communication in elephants is most similar to most human language systems, and will therefore be the focus of this paper. First, human language must be defined and parameters must be set for what human language really is. Timothy Jay explains that human language must be communicative, arbitrary, structured, multilayered, productive, and evolutionary (Jay 2). In addition, two more features of human language should be considered when discussing communication systems, which are discreteness and displacement (Hutchins, Class Notes).
as Hertz (Hz). The sounds of speech are in the range of 250 Hz to 4000
Another way some ants can communicate with one another is by sound.
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