Topic: animal communication

Three-months old baby bonobo Nakarla (L) plays with its mother Ukela on March 19, 2008 at the zoo in Frankfurt/M. (THOMAS LOHNES/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Do talking animals deserve human rights?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Two young male elephants greet the dominant male who invites younger males to accompany and leave with him. (Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell & Tim Rodwell)

Elephant rumbles can be signs of bonding

Matthew Rozsa
View of african desert elephants standing on field against clear sky, Cape Town, South Africa (Getty Images/Brian Durkin/500px)

Scientists decipher elephant "sentences"

Matthew Rozsa
Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) (Horst Jegen/McPhoto/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Gray seals clap back (and forth)

Nicole Karlis

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