Hello Everybody!!!!!! I´ve found this video:

http://animalplanet.tudiscovery.com/el-increible-baile-de-seduccion-de-la-arana-maratus-volans-video/

This video is about the ritual that makes the male spider to woo the female, and then, to mate.
If the male spider does not get the ritual, that is, his dancing is not attractive to the female, she will eat him. But if the ritual is attractive as explained Dr. Jürgen Otto, copulation occurs between spiders.
The process is as follows:
the male feels the presence of the female, and he raises his abdomen exposing their bright colors, while he raising two of his legs to show off in front of her. Once the female is receptive, the male slowly approaches her and he proceeded to mate; ritual that may have a duration two hours. If it does not, the dance may end becoming the male in the female's lunch.
Dr. Jürgen Otto says: Females of the species studied carefully the brilliant coloration of the males and the vibrations and movements made to dance, determining what is the proper and healthy specimen to mate.

This is not a language for us because animals do not use words to communicate like humans. The animals to communicate emit kinds of sounds such as: the whales or dolphins, or actions they use to satisfy their biological needs, as is the coupling between spiders, but they do not use words.

Thank you :)

Hello! Here is the link of the video that I decided to work on. Hope you like it!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsQnRnE-W8A
The video shows the different ways that marine mammals use to communicate. They use sounds for communication, navigation and to detect predators and preys. Many species use sound that can travel long distances underwater and can be heard hundreds of kilometers away.
Whales can also communicate in other ways. For instance, the noises when the water spouts from the whale blowhole or the noise of their tails slapping on the water. This slapping is used to show aggression or warning. Moreover, humpback whales communicate by singing, they sing long complicated songs which can last in from a few minutes to more than a half an hour. Most of the songs are made by male whales in order to locate the female whale. Killers whales communicate making noises each whale has a unique code.
Dolphins use visual signals and touching to communicate. Echolocation is the ability that dolphins have to see where they are by listening for echoes. They make clicks sounds which travel more quickly through the water because they bounce off of the objects of the water. Through these echoes dolphins can calculate distance, speed, size and the shape of the object. Furthermore, they communicate using vocal sounds like whistles which are used to express different emotions. Breaching is another form of communication that dolphins use to display aggression or warning. Finally, they show friendship by touching each other.
Justification
There are certain differences that indicates that mammals communication is not consider a language.
For instance, arbitrariness, in the case of mammals there is no specific relation between the sound and its meaning like human language. Moreover, there are no distinct units that can be combined to create new meanings. Another characteristic is that mammals communicate ideas that are in the immediate context. They cannot communicate ideas which are not present spatially and temporally.
Last but not least important is the limitation that dolphins and whales have. They cannot combine different units to create an indefinitely number of utterances. Each sounds combination means a specific thing.

Diana this the definition of the word Breaching: jumping high out of the water and then slapping the water as they come back down.
This,as I sed before, can be used to display aggression or warning or may be done purely for play or to loosen skin parasites.

Hello! This is the link of our video. I hope like it! I worked with Melisa Torres!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsMbn3b1Bis

This video is about the communication between animals. First of all, the video explains how animals can communicate through a variety of modes, which include chemical, Known as pheromones, sounds and sings, even dancing of modes. Also communication between animals can imply messages or warnings. As we can see in the video are present two kinds of animals:
One of them are bees: honey bees communicate information about food sources with a special dance, known as “ waggle dance”. Apart from that, bees communicate through sounds, and movement signals, as well as by releasing phenomenas into the environment.
The other kind of animal communication is Killer Whales. Sound is a very important method of communication for Whales because sight is less effective underwater. Killer Whales produce whistles echolocation clicks, pulsed calls, low- frequency pops and jaw claps. They produce sounds more frequently when they are closer to other individuals and less frequently when groups are dispersed. In addition , Whales’ sounds are used for group recognition and the coordination of behavior. Whales may also communicate using a variety of postures and gestures.
JUSTIFICATION:
We are going to start with the definition of “LANGUAGE”:
“ It is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication”
For us, Animal´s communication is not considered a language because:
• Animal might not able to speak or master advanced language techniques, but they certainly have other ways of communicating. For example: chemical signals, smell, touch, movement, postures, gestures, visual signals, sounds.
In conclusion, through these sounds or ways of communication, animals transmit information to anothers in order to be understood.

For me, animal communication has a decisive role. For example: in the spiders mating, where the female chooses the male according to its characteristics.

Or, when the parents of the marine mammals they instruct their children warning signs, or where it is located the shoals for their food.
In my example of spiders, these are communicated through visual communication, using its hind legs and showing the bright colors of its abdomen.
In the example of Ayelen, the communication that present the marine mammals is sonorous communication. Emitting a series of high frequency sounds, inperceptible to the human ear.
Human beings communicate through signs, they can be in form, sonorous, gestures and signs, but principally, we use the linguistic sign, through the adaptations of evolution. Through the linguistic sign, humans can express and communicate our ideas, emotions and thoughts in a rational way.


But animals communicate instinctively, “for subsistence”. For example: sound signals to detect danger, (when a dolphin is threatened by a shark, the dolphin emits a series of whistles to warn the rest of the group so that they can help it).
Gestures, using its body movements to mate, and the genes of the species are not lost.
Olfactory and chemical: eg ants lead the way to food, supporting the abdomen on the ground and leaving a mark of pheromones, which, the other ants follow the anthill to the food and viceversa.

The video that I decided to work on is the one from Eugenia.I think that it is really interesting the way in which males woo females. Some of the peacock spider's characteristics are unknow by me , the one that is the most interesting is their bright colours and how they use them to call the female attention.
Another significant item of the video is that females can eat the male if they don't like it. I only knew that they feed from the insects that spiders catch with their spiders'web.
The video information is almost completely new for me.

Hello Everybody!! This is my video (I worked alone):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-Nyt4Bmi8&list=PLMzCedooQmJZTWLf8xNuN4mYSdGYQD9zF

This video is about how polar bears interact with dogs. The people who made the video claim that polar bears notice how dogs might not be in a safe place and they want to make dogs comfortable and want them to feel safe, that´s why they behave so gentle with the dogs.

Communication is not based in language because Language is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication. Animals do not use any kind of complex systems of communication, and they cannot invent or make up one. That´s only an ability that humans acquire and develop.

For me, I caught my attention by the video communication between birds where the duck Barcino uses the movement of his head to indicate to his partner when bathing when the other monitors to any danger. It caught my attention, because I have seen this many times, but I did not know what that message, I thought that they enjoyed being in the water. It is very interesting to know that these animals communicate with the movement of its head.

Hello Everybody!!!
This is the link of my video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfKQAkBE5_0

This video called "Gestural Communication of birds" is about how they use gestures, especially gestures with the nape, in order to communicate with each other.

Birds have a great diversity of forms of Gestural communication,for example, as the video said,the Barcino duck use the head gesture in certain cases like an alert to leave the area.

Each kind of birds, has a different gestural type of communication,like for example; The Capuchine duck use the gestures with the nape in order to move away from the bird-watcher, also, the male duck use that gestures before the mating. Then we have the Black neck swan, they have a vertical movement of the neck, and their little swan imitate them.

Then we could see in the video the Austral flamenco, he use the scrag to keep away his neighbors of alimentation area.

Finally, I can say that there is no dubt that in birds, the head movement is a communication form, wich can means different things in different moments, but it's never good to generalize, because sometimes, the head movements have vision purposes, and not of communication.

Hello everyone!! Iworkeb all by myself. This is my video, I hope you like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0udTWNEamE

This video is about the golden frog. The golden frog communicates with the same os its especies looking for a female.
The golden frog sends a message that it is available by making a wave. The arrival comes closer by waving back. The message is not the same and the arrival goes away.
Later, the golden frog finds another golden frog, this time is female and they communicate by waving, then, when the message is the same, it starts copulation.
Finally, a group of people make an experiment with a plastic frog to show how they communicate among them. They discovered that the golden frog communicates its messages trhough body expressions like the waving technique. It also produces a lower sound to call another golden frog.

The golden frog doesn´t produce language because there are main differences that can be compare with the human language. For example, the evolution of the human language at the level of vocal tract, larynx and a flexible resonance chamber that produce sufficient large sounds repertoire, which the golden frog is not able to do. Another difference is that human language can be related to the past or future events and produces sounds for each word, but animals can´t go beyond the "here and now"

JUSTIFICATION:
I choose this video because for me it's a real example of communication in animals,not a language but communication at all,because as we know, language is when human beings express our thoughs, ideas and feelings in a verbal way.
Despite the birds don't use words, they can interact each other and express their feelings, likes,etc, using in the case of the video "gestural movements".

I decided to comment the Estefi and Meli's video;
Really I like it a lot, it has a very good and complete explanation about the animal's communication, the ways in wich different kind of animals can interact each other specially the two types of animals that the video mention; bees and whales.
Honestly I didn't know much about bees, their "waggle dance", the sounds that they make, and the movement signals that they have.
It's really a manner of COMMUNICATION.

Hello, guys. This is the video I worked on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UH-6r5jrGI.
This video y the BBC , shows how wolves use howls to reunite a pack that's got scattered after a long hunt. David Attenborough (the speaker) explains a little bit about ow they also use these howls for the wolves to organise before they set off to hunt.

One of the main reasons this communication is not language is this communication system is only used for the here and now.
Other important reason to consider is that language is a veru complex system in the sense that humans can create arbitrary sounds and symbols that can be understood by others, to designate new things even when they're not here and now, and use them on a regular or habitual way, with no great cognitive effort.

I decided to work on Ayelen's Video. It really called my attention when I saw it previously at YouTube.
I never imagined that whales used other type of communication but sounds, which makes it really fascinating. It really seems that most of the animal communication is made specially for survival. It really calls my attention that even for different pack killer whales produce different sounds to communicate.

I also didn't know that dolphins could manage to locate each other by hearing the echo of the sound they produce.

Hello!! Here is the video I’ve chosen (I’ve worked alone): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i74RbATjBk4 it shows how animals communicate between them. There are four ways in which they can do that: visual, auditory, tactile and chemical communication.
- Visual communication: there are two types, physical appearance and behavior.
- Auditory communication: it refers to the sounds animals do to communicate.
- Tactile communication: it means to touch and it’s used to comfort their babies or to show dominance.
- Chemical communication: it refers to senses and chemical reactions like smells, poison etc produced by animals.
It is not a language because they use that type of communication in order to satisfy their immediate necessity like attract mates, get food, mark territory etc. They don’t express their thoughts but what they need.


(Sorry but I couldn't posted it before)

Hello guys! I worked with Mariana and this is the video we found, we hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i74RbATjBk4&list=UUjOt6w7XcRicuCcilYyodww&index=8
The video shows 4 types of communication, these are:
- Visual: they communicate by shine colors, shapes and their behavior.
- Auditory: sounds that animas use to communicate each other, sounds are good because it can travel long distances and the volume of sounds depend on their conditions.
- Tactile: touch is the typical way used in the animal kingdom, for example when they show who dominates.
- Chemical: they have different defense mechanism and different smells and tastes.
According to the video we watched in class, “humans communicate and interact with each other by means of habitually-used, oral-auditory, and arbitrary symbols”. And “animal communication system is a luckily ability to communicate about anything beyond the hearing loud.”
JUSTIFICATION: It’s difficult to differentiate between the two ways to communicate, because they have a similar behavior when they communicate, since both use the signals based on the senses.
Humans have a linguistic behavior, and using codes and signs, and thus reproduce the contents phonic, syllabic or semantic. On the other hand, animals although they might believe that the sounds made by animals act as a kind of acoustic language, they can not create a new communication signal, as they have no voice and they are incapable of reasoning. The sounds vary according to their classification.
Animals have an innate communication, unlike human who need to hear it and repeat it in order to learn it.
The message content of the animals is always determined by its nature, unlike humans who have the ability to lie and deflect the intent of the message.
For the reasons stated above, there are certain ways of communication that animals are unable to reproduce, which humans can produce through language.

Hello Everybody!!!!!! I´ve found this video:

http://animalplanet.tudiscovery.com/el-increible-baile-de-seduccion-de-la-arana-maratus-volans-video/

This video is about the ritual that makes the male spider to woo the female, and then, to mate.
If the male spider does not get the ritual, that is, his dancing is not attractive to the female, she will eat him. But if the ritual is attractive as explained Dr. Jürgen Otto, copulation occurs between spiders.
The process is as follows:
the male feels the presence of the female, and he raises his abdomen exposing their bright colors, while he raising two of his legs to show off in front of her. Once the female is receptive, the male slowly approaches her and he proceeded to mate; ritual that may have a duration two hours. If it does not, the dance may end becoming the male in the female's lunch.
Dr. Jürgen Otto says: Females of the species studied carefully the brilliant coloration of the males and the vibrations and movements made to dance, determining what is the proper and healthy specimen to mate.

This is not a language for us because animals do not use words to communicate like humans. The animals to communicate emit kinds of sounds such as: the whales or dolphins, or actions they use to satisfy their biological needs, as is the coupling between spiders, but they do not use words.

Thank you :)

Hello! Here is the link of the video that I decided to work on. Hope you like it!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsQnRnE-W8A
The video shows the different ways that marine mammals use to communicate. They use sounds for communication, navigation and to detect predators and preys. Many species use sound that can travel long distances underwater and can be heard hundreds of kilometers away.
Whales can also communicate in other ways. For instance, the noises when the water spouts from the whale blowhole or the noise of their tails slapping on the water. This slapping is used to show aggression or warning. Moreover, humpback whales communicate by singing, they sing long complicated songs which can last in from a few minutes to more than a half an hour. Most of the songs are made by male whales in order to locate the female whale. Killers whales communicate making noises each whale has a unique code.
Dolphins use visual signals and touching to communicate. Echolocation is the ability that dolphins have to see where they are by listening for echoes. They make clicks sounds which travel more quickly through the water because they bounce off of the objects of the water. Through these echoes dolphins can calculate distance, speed, size and the shape of the object. Furthermore, they communicate using vocal sounds like whistles which are used to express different emotions. Breaching is another form of communication that dolphins use to display aggression or warning. Finally, they show friendship by touching each other.
Justification
There are certain differences that indicates that mammals communication is not consider a language.
For instance, arbitrariness, in the case of mammals there is no specific relation between the sound and its meaning like human language. Moreover, there are no distinct units that can be combined to create new meanings. Another characteristic is that mammals communicate ideas that are in the immediate context. They cannot communicate ideas which are not present spatially and temporally.
Last but not least important is the limitation that dolphins and whales have. They cannot combine different units to create an indefinitely number of utterances. Each sounds combination means a specific thing.

Diana this the definition of the word Breaching: jumping high out of the water and then slapping the water as they come back down.
This,as I sed before, can be used to display aggression or warning or may be done purely for play or to loosen skin parasites.

Hello! This is the link of our video. I hope like it! I worked with Melisa Torres!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsMbn3b1Bis

This video is about the communication between animals. First of all, the video explains how animals can communicate through a variety of modes, which include chemical, Known as pheromones, sounds and sings, even dancing of modes. Also communication between animals can imply messages or warnings. As we can see in the video are present two kinds of animals:
One of them are bees: honey bees communicate information about food sources with a special dance, known as “ waggle dance”. Apart from that, bees communicate through sounds, and movement signals, as well as by releasing phenomenas into the environment.
The other kind of animal communication is Killer Whales. Sound is a very important method of communication for Whales because sight is less effective underwater. Killer Whales produce whistles echolocation clicks, pulsed calls, low- frequency pops and jaw claps. They produce sounds more frequently when they are closer to other individuals and less frequently when groups are dispersed. In addition , Whales’ sounds are used for group recognition and the coordination of behavior. Whales may also communicate using a variety of postures and gestures.
JUSTIFICATION:
We are going to start with the definition of “LANGUAGE”:
“ It is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication”
For us, Animal´s communication is not considered a language because:
• Animal might not able to speak or master advanced language techniques, but they certainly have other ways of communicating. For example: chemical signals, smell, touch, movement, postures, gestures, visual signals, sounds.
In conclusion, through these sounds or ways of communication, animals transmit information to anothers in order to be understood.

For me, animal communication has a decisive role. For example: in the spiders mating, where the female chooses the male according to its characteristics.

Or, when the parents of the marine mammals they instruct their children warning signs, or where it is located the shoals for their food.
In my example of spiders, these are communicated through visual communication, using its hind legs and showing the bright colors of its abdomen.
In the example of Ayelen, the communication that present the marine mammals is sonorous communication. Emitting a series of high frequency sounds, inperceptible to the human ear.
Human beings communicate through signs, they can be in form, sonorous, gestures and signs, but principally, we use the linguistic sign, through the adaptations of evolution. Through the linguistic sign, humans can express and communicate our ideas, emotions and thoughts in a rational way.


But animals communicate instinctively, “for subsistence”. For example: sound signals to detect danger, (when a dolphin is threatened by a shark, the dolphin emits a series of whistles to warn the rest of the group so that they can help it).
Gestures, using its body movements to mate, and the genes of the species are not lost.
Olfactory and chemical: eg ants lead the way to food, supporting the abdomen on the ground and leaving a mark of pheromones, which, the other ants follow the anthill to the food and viceversa.

The video that I decided to work on is the one from Eugenia.I think that it is really interesting the way in which males woo females. Some of the peacock spider's characteristics are unknow by me , the one that is the most interesting is their bright colours and how they use them to call the female attention.
Another significant item of the video is that females can eat the male if they don't like it. I only knew that they feed from the insects that spiders catch with their spiders'web.
The video information is almost completely new for me.

Hello Everybody!! This is my video (I worked alone):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-Nyt4Bmi8&list=PLMzCedooQmJZTWLf8xNuN4mYSdGYQD9zF

This video is about how polar bears interact with dogs. The people who made the video claim that polar bears notice how dogs might not be in a safe place and they want to make dogs comfortable and want them to feel safe, that´s why they behave so gentle with the dogs.

Communication is not based in language because Language is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication. Animals do not use any kind of complex systems of communication, and they cannot invent or make up one. That´s only an ability that humans acquire and develop.

For me, I caught my attention by the video communication between birds where the duck Barcino uses the movement of his head to indicate to his partner when bathing when the other monitors to any danger. It caught my attention, because I have seen this many times, but I did not know what that message, I thought that they enjoyed being in the water. It is very interesting to know that these animals communicate with the movement of its head.

Hello Everybody!!!
This is the link of my video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfKQAkBE5_0

This video called "Gestural Communication of birds" is about how they use gestures, especially gestures with the nape, in order to communicate with each other.

Birds have a great diversity of forms of Gestural communication,for example, as the video said,the Barcino duck use the head gesture in certain cases like an alert to leave the area.

Each kind of birds, has a different gestural type of communication,like for example; The Capuchine duck use the gestures with the nape in order to move away from the bird-watcher, also, the male duck use that gestures before the mating. Then we have the Black neck swan, they have a vertical movement of the neck, and their little swan imitate them.

Then we could see in the video the Austral flamenco, he use the scrag to keep away his neighbors of alimentation area.

Finally, I can say that there is no dubt that in birds, the head movement is a communication form, wich can means different things in different moments, but it's never good to generalize, because sometimes, the head movements have vision purposes, and not of communication.

Hello everyone!! Iworkeb all by myself. This is my video, I hope you like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0udTWNEamE

This video is about the golden frog. The golden frog communicates with the same os its especies looking for a female.
The golden frog sends a message that it is available by making a wave. The arrival comes closer by waving back. The message is not the same and the arrival goes away.
Later, the golden frog finds another golden frog, this time is female and they communicate by waving, then, when the message is the same, it starts copulation.
Finally, a group of people make an experiment with a plastic frog to show how they communicate among them. They discovered that the golden frog communicates its messages trhough body expressions like the waving technique. It also produces a lower sound to call another golden frog.

The golden frog doesn´t produce language because there are main differences that can be compare with the human language. For example, the evolution of the human language at the level of vocal tract, larynx and a flexible resonance chamber that produce sufficient large sounds repertoire, which the golden frog is not able to do. Another difference is that human language can be related to the past or future events and produces sounds for each word, but animals can´t go beyond the "here and now"

JUSTIFICATION:
I choose this video because for me it's a real example of communication in animals,not a language but communication at all,because as we know, language is when human beings express our thoughs, ideas and feelings in a verbal way.
Despite the birds don't use words, they can interact each other and express their feelings, likes,etc, using in the case of the video "gestural movements".

I decided to comment the Estefi and Meli's video;
Really I like it a lot, it has a very good and complete explanation about the animal's communication, the ways in wich different kind of animals can interact each other specially the two types of animals that the video mention; bees and whales.
Honestly I didn't know much about bees, their "waggle dance", the sounds that they make, and the movement signals that they have.
It's really a manner of COMMUNICATION.

Hello, guys. This is the video I worked on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UH-6r5jrGI.
This video y the BBC , shows how wolves use howls to reunite a pack that's got scattered after a long hunt. David Attenborough (the speaker) explains a little bit about ow they also use these howls for the wolves to organise before they set off to hunt.

One of the main reasons this communication is not language is this communication system is only used for the here and now.
Other important reason to consider is that language is a veru complex system in the sense that humans can create arbitrary sounds and symbols that can be understood by others, to designate new things even when they're not here and now, and use them on a regular or habitual way, with no great cognitive effort.

I decided to work on Ayelen's Video. It really called my attention when I saw it previously at YouTube.
I never imagined that whales used other type of communication but sounds, which makes it really fascinating. It really seems that most of the animal communication is made specially for survival. It really calls my attention that even for different pack killer whales produce different sounds to communicate.

I also didn't know that dolphins could manage to locate each other by hearing the echo of the sound they produce.

Hello!! Here is the video I’ve chosen (I’ve worked alone): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i74RbATjBk4 it shows how animals communicate between them. There are four ways in which they can do that: visual, auditory, tactile and chemical communication.
- Visual communication: there are two types, physical appearance and behavior.
- Auditory communication: it refers to the sounds animals do to communicate.
- Tactile communication: it means to touch and it’s used to comfort their babies or to show dominance.
- Chemical communication: it refers to senses and chemical reactions like smells, poison etc produced by animals.
It is not a language because they use that type of communication in order to satisfy their immediate necessity like attract mates, get food, mark territory etc. They don’t express their thoughts but what they need.


(Sorry but I couldn't posted it before)

Hello guys! I worked with Mariana and this is the video we found, we hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i74RbATjBk4&list=UUjOt6w7XcRicuCcilYyodww&index=8
The video shows 4 types of communication, these are:
- Visual: they communicate by shine colors, shapes and their behavior.
- Auditory: sounds that animas use to communicate each other, sounds are good because it can travel long distances and the volume of sounds depend on their conditions.
- Tactile: touch is the typical way used in the animal kingdom, for example when they show who dominates.
- Chemical: they have different defense mechanism and different smells and tastes.
According to the video we watched in class, “humans communicate and interact with each other by means of habitually-used, oral-auditory, and arbitrary symbols”. And “animal communication system is a luckily ability to communicate about anything beyond the hearing loud.”
JUSTIFICATION: It’s difficult to differentiate between the two ways to communicate, because they have a similar behavior when they communicate, since both use the signals based on the senses.
Humans have a linguistic behavior, and using codes and signs, and thus reproduce the contents phonic, syllabic or semantic. On the other hand, animals although they might believe that the sounds made by animals act as a kind of acoustic language, they can not create a new communication signal, as they have no voice and they are incapable of reasoning. The sounds vary according to their classification.
Animals have an innate communication, unlike human who need to hear it and repeat it in order to learn it.
The message content of the animals is always determined by its nature, unlike humans who have the ability to lie and deflect the intent of the message.
For the reasons stated above, there are certain ways of communication that animals are unable to reproduce, which humans can produce through language.