Nationalgeographic.co.id—If you’ve ever been surprised to see some people like it so much babbling, part animal it seems to be the same with each other. Because, not only humans, some animal also like babbling.
For humans, talk or communication are the cornerstone of our relationships and part of how we can function in our daily lives. So as animal, they make sounds to issue warnings, attract mates, signal danger, find each other, and defend their territory. Just like ours, their vocal cords fulfill a myriad of purposes that lay their social foundation and ensure their survival.
But have you ever wondered, of all animal that is on Earth, animal what the most chatty or like to speak up?
In the criteria for humans, we can measure “talk” in two ways: the amount of time spent voicing, and the variety of what the voices communicate. How does this apply to nonhuman species? Researchers have identified some general trends in vocal species, and general trends in species that prefer a quieter life.
Many people might assume that one of the driving factors communication animal is how social the species is. It’s true that some highly social species are also more talkative.
For example, queleas are constantly making noises while flying. Then there are mammals like meerkats, small mongoose-like creatures from southern Africa, that live in large, gregarious communities that cooperate cooperatively in raising young, foraging for food, and looking for predators.
“When they’re foraging for food, they’re always squeaking, so everyone knows, ‘I’m here; it’s me; all is well; no predators around.’ They’re constantly making these slow, gentle contact calls,” said Arik Kershenbaum, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in England who studies communication vowel animal and use algorithms to analyze and compare their voices.
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African gray parrot (Psittacus erithacus).
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But this is not something absolute. Being a social being doesn’t necessarily mean being a communicative animal, says Kershenbaum. Because, speaking there is also a risk.
“Most animals try not to make too much noise, because it actually takes a lot of energy,” Kershenbaum said Live Science. Kershenbaum is the author of the book “The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy” Penguin Press’s 2921 issue of which partly deals with animal communication.
Another factor is predation. Sound puts animals at risk for capture by other predators as well as humans.
When it comes to vocal communication, social species tend to have greater diversity in the messages they convey, Kershenbaum said. As a general rule, solitary animals need to communicate simpler messages to the rest of the world, compared to animals living in cooperative groups where communication is needed to maintain social hierarchies, find and share food, and alert each other to threats.
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“You can see that if you’re in a cooperative group, there’s probably a lot more to say than if you were living alone,” Kershenbaum said.
Some animals such as parrots can imitate the voices of humans and other species. Some as big as other animals just make sounds that we don’t understand at all.
Whatever the animals said, some of them clearly spent more time making noise than others. So who are these chatty animals, and what makes this much babbling valuable to them?
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According to Erich Jarvis, a neurologist at The Rockefeller University in New York who studied songbirds. animal can be divided into two large groups. They are nonvocal (or “inborn”) learners, and vocal learners who learn vocals by imitating sounds. Only a few groups animal vocal learning groups: humans, songbird species, and some nonhuman mammals, including dolphins, whales, elephants, seals, and bats.
So, animal what is worthy of the title as animal most chatty on earth? “No one I know has ever actually gone there and counted all the species to say this is the answer,” Jarvis said.
But the short answer is that the group animal The most chatty is a member of a species that learns vocals, Jarvis said. Kershenbaum made the educated guess that among animal–animal who learn these vocals, dolphins will be strong contenders for the title, according to his research. “If you’ve ever been in the water with dolphins, it’s almost never been quiet,” Kershenbaum said. “They always, always make a sound.”
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