Animal Play and Animal Communication

1. Animal Play and Animal Communication by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen

2. Kids and Animals Playing

3. Amazing Animals SNEEZING PANDA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4I2vA9tzsQ SPIDERS ON DRUGS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc TORTOISES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mRJfMi3xYw&feature=related

4. Which came first,the chicken, or the egg?

5. More Amazing Animals ANIMAL POWER MOVES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkYbFr7dcIs CRAZY HONEY BADGER (CONTAINS BAD LANGUAGE): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

6. Fish and Birds

7. Birds LYRE BIRD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjAcyTXRunY&feature=youtu.be

8. Cats

9. Wake Up Cat If you are a cat lover, do you recognize these behaviors? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMiAQkkLy1E

11. Cats LOLCAT BIBLE: http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Genesis_1 SAD CAT DIARY: https://www.google.com/#q=sad+cat+diary

14. Nora’s CATcerto

15. Animals Helping…and Being Helped

16. Cats and Dogs CINDERELLA ANIMALS—IF THE SHOE FITS…: https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10200387320826253 CATS VS. DOGS PLAYING: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dugipeVZtE

17. Cats and Dogs

18. Dogs LONELY DOGS TUCK THEMSELVES INTO BED: http://on.aol.com/video/lonely-dogs-tuck-themselves-into-bed-518519436

19. Cats, Dogs & Babies

20. Personified Dog

21. Dogs and Photo Bombing

22. Dogs, Cats & Children

23. Ducks

25. Duck Photography

26. Cat and MouseCat Leisure

27. Cats Reading and Sleeping

28. Animal Doppelgangers

29. Grumpy Cat!

30. Grumpy Cat lives in Phoenix, Arizona. 800 people came to get their pictures taken with Grumpy Cat. This event was at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona.

31. Mummy CatWhy were cats revered in Egypt?

32. Donkeys and Camel Look-Alikes

33. RhinocerosWhy are rhinos becoming extinct?

34. Thelma and Louise:The Movie The Two-Headed Turtle

35. Warning!

36. DO ANIMALS HAVE “LANGUAGE?” • No animals learn a human-type language. However, some animal languages are impressive:

37. “TALKING” ANIMALS: • ants • bees (Von Frisch) • birds (Alcock): parrots and cockatiels (Patterson) • bovines • canines • equines (Clever Hans) • felines (Nilsen cat) • fish: dolphins (Lilly) • primates (Vikki-Hayes, Koko-Patterson, Warshow-Gardners, Lana, Nim Chimsky-Terrace, Sarah-Thomas/Church)

38. ANIMAL LANGUAGE: • Attacking • Baring Throat • Body Coloring and Shape • Calls • Chuttering • Facial Expression • Giving Off Pheromones • Singing • Tail Slapping • Tail Wagging Dancing (Round, Tail-wagging, Sickle) • Whistling

39. Lizards: Hungry and InLove

40. ANIMAL MESSAGES: • Attention • Come • Defiance • Dominance • Food • Friendship • Go • Mimicry (for deception and for bonding) • Protection (camouflage, assistance, misleading enemies…) • Sex • Territory

41. Animal Politics

42. Rabbit vs. Snake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXp95EMf4fw

43. BEES’ ROUND DANCE (Kemp & Smith 663)

44. BEES’ TAIL-WAGGING DANCE (Kemp and Smith 664)

45. Cat Shape Shifters

46. HUMAN-LANGUAGES AMONG ANIMALS: • AMESLAN • Computers • Creations: “Sugar Fruit,” “Finger Bracelet” • Magnetic Chips • Yerkish • NOTE: Some mother primates have taught sign language to their daughters; is this like Planet of the Apes?

47. WASHOE SIGNING “TICKLE” (Kemp and Smith 671)

48. SARAH’S SYMBOLS (Kemp and Smith 672)

49. YERKISH LEXIGRAMS (Kemp and Smith 672)

50. Animals Communicating Hotness: