Animal Languages

CR 864

The Language of Natural Life-forms

If, as a result of his reason and intellect, the human being is so powerful of language that he can express himself specifically with certain words and say exactly that, that fellow human beings can clearly understand and grasp everything that is said and brought to him, then this does not only apply to the human being. Likewise, all animals, creatures and all other forms of natural life also have languages, only that these are of a completely different nature than the language of human beings. It is given that every animal genus and every separate species, as well as every animal genus and every separate species, and therefore also every other genus of natural life-forms and their species, each has its own language. In this, each genus and each species of natural life-forms has its own language, which can simply be louder, whistling, chirping, hissing, roaring, snorting, cooing, barking, meowing, growling or otherwise, depending on the genus or species of the life-form in question. Thus, language is simply certain sounds, movements, and motions, etc., as well as the most diverse behaviours, which actually function as a normal means of communication, in order to communicate with each other or with other and different life-forms. Depending on what it is or is supposed to be, the corresponding language resp. the communication appears appreciative, friendly and good, or as dangerous, attacking, fear-inducing or rejecting etc. Thus, in the case of natural life-forms, such as oxen, cows, horses and pigs, or goats, sheep, chickens or geese, as well as, of course, lions, zebras, crocodiles or elephants, tigers, camels and dromedaries, etc., each has its own language resp. means of communication, which corresponds to the life-form.

These languages resp. means of communication differ from the language of human beings in that, on the one hand, clear words for communication are consciously and clearly formed by the human being’s intellect and reason, but also noises, sounds, facial expressions and gesticulation etc., through which the human being can express himself in many different ways. This alone raises the human being above all other life-forms, right up to the human-like ape-being.

All natural life-forms, like the human beings, also have their own innate language resp. possibility of communication, which also includes the so-called domestic animals. And depending on the type of life-form, it is natural to expand this possibility of communication by means of a specific learning possibility. It is a fact that all living beings also have a certain Intelligentum, with which they can train and thus learn through some circumstances or through imitation etc.. Through their language and their behaviour and through any other means of communication, very many of all the life-forms of nature can also somehow communicate with other life-forms and even make friends with them, as is also the case, for example, with dogs and cats, etc., which are normally enemies of each other from the ground up, but which can get on very well with the human beings and peacefully associate with them, but can also develop feelings and thus also attachment and good togetherness. Contrary to the erroneous opinion of the human beings, so-called higher natural beings not only have a certain degree of Intelligentum, but also have the ability of instinctive thinking and thus of forming feelings, as well as of feeling and sensing, which is – not alone – a reason why animals, creatures and also completely all other genera and species of natural life-forms are not to be harassed and not to be tortured.

Every higher species and every kind of natural life-form – so called because they differ from the human being as a conscious thinking being – is, as mentioned, capable of instinct thinking, while lower and lowest life-forms are capable of impulse thinking, sensation thinking or only reaction thinking and reaction acting. Nevertheless, everyone, and indeed all natural life-forms as a whole, have the ability to speak a language by which they can communicate with each other, at least within their own genus or species. As mentioned, this is specific to one’s own genus or species, which can also be absolutely different in terms of groups and habitats, which means that, for example, cattle use and practice a completely different language or dialect than the same genus or species that lives, for example, only 250 metres away. So it is the same as with human beings who, for example, live in Switzerland and speak Swiss-German in a certain dialect, but in various dialects in other areas probably also speak Swiss-German, but a completely different dialect. Nevertheless, it is possible for natural beings that are completely foreign to each other – i.e. animals, creatures and other living beings, as well as plants of all kinds and species – to communicate with each other. This is despite the fact that they speak a foreign language, so to speak, as is also the case with human beings who speak, for example, Swiss-German, German, French, Italian, English, Chinese or Arabic, Urdu or Hindi, etc., but who can communicate with each other despite the language barriers, and without the need for an actual interpreter. On Earth there are many thousands of actual languages and dialects among human beings alone, there may be 10,000 or more or less, but among natural beings there are many millions. This is precisely because their immense diversity of genera and species is in the millions, but in humanity it is only small and there is actually only one genus, the human being, from which, however, various species are given. These, however, differ somehow from each other in anatomical appearance, as well as in skin colour, whereby the colours white, black, brown, yellow, bluish, reddish and even greenish occur, which, however, is partly unknown to anthropologists, because they are still far from being able to encounter such kinds of human beings.

Here on Earth the genus human being exists only once, while the genera of natural beings are millions of them, and are divided into species that develop in certain wise through mutations from the genera. Overall, the genera of life-forms are actually called races, while the species that are actually mutations and in this respect emerge from the genera are called half-castes or crossbreeds, because they have different parents from different races that can mate with each other. This is precisely when this is naturally possible, because otherwise this would not be feasible, because genera are normally separated from each other throughout in such a manner that sexual union for the production of offspring is not possible if this were not conceivable as a result of a natural anomaly.

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…Housecats have over time earned a reputation as individualistic creatures who are often impassive. They are also considered by many to be antisocial. But this reputation may be unwarranted, at least according to the findings by Florkiewicz and Scott—they found that cats make 276 distinct facial expressions, which is high compared to other species. Humans, for example, make only 44.

full article https://phys.org/news/2023-10-housecats-hundreds-facial-interact-cats.html

A team of animal behaviorists has found that elephants use gestures and vocal cues when they greet one another. The researchers ventured into the field at the reserve in Zimbabwe and watched and recorded encounters between elephants for one month in 2021. They observed 1,014 physical actions taken by elephants engaged in a greeting and 268 vocalizations.

full article https://phys.org/news/2024-05-elephants-gestures-vocal-cues.html