1 Using your knowledge of animal language from the article, watch the montage ‘Best of funny talking animals’ from the acclaimed BBC programme Walk on the Wild Side: www.tinyurl.com/plmfvj7. Are any of these species using language? Explain why, how, in what way(s)
2 Hartel cites recent research by King and Janik (2013) showing that bottlenose dolphins called back more frequently to their conspecifics (i.e. same species) after hearing their copied signature whistle (i.e. their ‘name’), whereas they did not respond to other dolphins’ signature whistles or other vocalisations. What similarities might there be here to human behaviour in topics you have studied and what functions might this serve (e.g. attachment)?
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