Environmental release with powerful effect on male stickleback behavior.

Environmental release with powerful effect on male stickleback behavior.

            The environmental release that had more powerful effect on a male stickleback is the color red. This can be exhibited by the laboratory experiment where the male replica fish that was not red, was not bothered.

When the dummy with red lining was introduced the stickleback went at it in an instant.

My derivation can also be supported by the fact that when the female released an egg, the male stickleback also attacked the red.

Unreliable monkeys

From the findings it is clear that alarm calls made by a monkey to a different group of monkeys from which it doesn’t belong will be ignored, it will be treated as a false alarm.

Incidentally if in the last instance a male monkey made a leopard call; when a female monkey makes a similar call it, the latter will be treated as unreliable.

The dichotomy will be true where if in the last instance a female monkey made an eagle call or an approaching different group of monkeys, when a male monkey makes a similar call later it will be treated as unreliable and ignored.

It is from this findings that we deduce that monkeys just like humans, do value consistency and reliability.

Phenomes

I can also think of words like; thumb dum, young slang and brat rat.

In a conversation the first word would determine the meaning the second one would take, even without explaining. It is the leading guiding light in this scenario.

Parallels in communication patterns

Research on AAB and ABA on human beings and on animals is important as it helps to understand what leads to brain reactions. It has been noted that children under the age of 7 years tend to be outsmarted by chimps, orangutans, and even crows.

It would be interesting to note that is why there is a disparity on what excites their brains at that early formative stage.

Communication aspect in animals

Animal communication aspect is an interesting one. Scout bees being able to look for food, go back to their lairs and inform the rest through a waggle dance is interesting. Not only are the scout bees able to alert them of the availability of food, but they are able even to give direction just by the patterns they form as they do the waggle dance. It is an interesting bit that all the bees are able to exactly place where they are to go, in direction and distance.

It is important to appreciate the fact that cognitively-driven communication requires that there be an intention to communicate on the part of the sender, and the ability to anticipate and decode the effects of the signal being sent, in animals.

Through the various calls made by monkeys, they are able to pass emotional messages such as danger and even reference calls, like the ability to warn of an approaching group of other monkeys.

From the same scenario it is also poignant to note that monkeys can also get calls from their fellow monkeys but decide to ignore, by virtue of the method they have used or medium, the communication can be termed as unreliable.

Another trait in animals that was surprising is the inherent cognitive ability to choose to alert fellow animals when there is danger or alert them when there is food, depending on the benefit or lack thereof they will derive from their actions.

In the case of capuchin monkeys, the research has shown that they are less likely to make food calls in high density groups. However, in low density groups they will gladly make calls for the others to join.

Animals in some instances will mimic sounds of other animals in order to give that deception effect. They can make deception calls to warn of danger so that a different species hides and they are left to feast on their targeted prey.

Chacma monkey also communicates in high pitch or low pitch to give different cognitive messages, which may look too complicated for animals, but it happens.