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Animal Talk Secondary Plus

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  • Give three reasons why animals communicate
    Teacher judges, examples may include: to establish dominance, to attract mates, for self-defence, to care for their young, to coordinate group behaviour, etc
  • True or False? Whales and dolphins develop regional accents (like Scottish or Andalúz)
    True!
  • Bees use buzzing sounds to communicate the location of pollen and nectar - True or False?
    False! They do a complicated dance
  • True or False? Chicks can cheep from inside the egg.
    True!
  • Parrots like video-calling each other - True or False?
    True, a recent study with 18 parrots showed that they respond to each other on video calls
  • Parrots can learn human words from other parrots. True or False?
    True!
  • Give three examples of ways animals communicate visually
    Teacher judges, examples include: change in skin colouring, dance, gestures and trying to look bigger than one is.
  • Apart from making sounds, how can animals communicate? Give at least three ways.
    That we know of, animals can communicate through sounds, visually, through pheromones (chemicals), through touch and even through electricity!
  • Name the words for five animal sounds (birds included)
    Teacher judges answer (bark, hoot, roar, howl, grunt, etc)
  • Asiatic wild dogs communicate through whistling - True or False?
    True, they organise their hunting by whistling at each other
  • What is the maximum distance we believe whales can communicate? 1 mile, 10 miles or more than 500 miles?
    Whale sounds can travel up to 10.000 miles. There is proof of whale to whale communication further than 500 miles!
  • Cats miaow at other cats. True or False?
    False! Cats reserve miaowing for humans. They communicate with other cats through body language and hissing.
  • Beetles use a form of morse code to communicate. True or False?
    True, the death-watch beetle uses a system not unlike Morse code. It raps its head along the top of the tunnel, producing echoes to deliver a message.
  • We can always hear frogs communicate. True or False?
    False, some frogs communicate producing high-frequency sounds that humans are unable to notice.
  • True or False: Gorillas can learn up to 1000 signs to communicate with humans
    True!
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