To get our mental gears turning this week, let’s talk about the variety of modes by which animals can communicate. Cause it’s impressive!
Animals communicate by visual, auditory, olfactory, electric, touch, seismic, thermal, and autocommunicative ways.
Let’s take one: seismic. Many types of animals can send vibrations through a medium like soil, water, or a web, to another animal. Spiders, for instance, can tune strands of their webs like guitar strings to make the strands capable of producing different frequencies. But the metaphor isn’t perfect, for spider silk can be tuned to a much wider range of frequencies than synthetic or manmade materials!
Once its web is constructed, the spider then has an incredible sensor array to detect prey, fool other spiders into becoming their dinner, and communicating with potential mates.
What’s your favorite mode of animal communication? Can you think of an animal that uses it?
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Animal Communication Modes
