Animal Books

Breaking the Codes of Animal Language

Tim Friend (what a cool name, huh?) wrote this amazing book on animals and their use of communication using the latests scientific discoveries and by using simple animal observation.  Although most animals do not communicate like humans by vocalizing (in fact, chimpanzees rarely use vocalization for communication, and they are our closests living relatives), we humans share a common form of communication with almost all animals, body language.

The world holds over 10 million species, all of them using their own evolved and specialized language to let others know what they are thinking, feeling, needing or wanting.  What Tim Friend states in this book is that all animals and humans can easily understand each other because every creature on earth “speaks” a common nonvebal language, a language that has developed through millions of years of evoltuion.

Speaking of evolution, i was reading a National Geographic last night and they showed the story of horses evolving.  It all started 50 million years ago in North America.  About one million years ago, some horses moved across the bearing land bridge into Europe and Asia, and those groups slowly moved into Africa to make the zebras.  Sadly, in about 10,000 bc all of the horses in North America went extinct, but how do we still have wild horses you may ask?  In the 16th century, Spain brought over horses on their boats and a few escaped, repopulating america with wild horses once again!

Back to the book..  Tim Friend collects a number of amazingly gifted scientists in the field of animal communication to show you a range of animals in action and explain why and how they use signals to communicate.

For further reading, please check out all of the animal books that i have reviewed.  Also please feel free to check out some of my animal pictures that i have taken!