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Article: Animal communication.
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- Science Weekly
- Article date:
- January 4, 2008
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Background
All animals have body parts and traits that enable them to communicate via signals. Communication is necessary for survival.
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All animals communicate by sending signals that can be smelled, seen, felt, or heard. They announce danger, attract a mate, and bond with their kin for hunting and travel. Air-breathing vertebrates send and receive chemical messages called pheromones that they smell through receptors in their noses, nostrils and tongues. Animals without bones, like ants, detect scent through receptors on their antennae.
Animals create visual signals with physical ...