Cornell notes template
Communication:
- Identify different types of communication in the wild
- Define aspects of language
- Describe attempts to teach human language to animals
- Evaluate - Study ofstudies
Definitioncommunication/language how humans transmit and receive information,
verbally or non-verbally and how this affects their
behaviour, feelings and relationships
- Signal, signaller and receiver
- Poison dart frogs communicate info about themselves via
colouring
- Why do animals - Long term – to survive and reproduce
communicate? - Short term – alarms, food mate attraction
- Communication
- Honey bee dance
in the wild
- Karl von Frisch (started work in 1919)
- Won Nobel prize (with Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen)
in 1973
- Food sources <100m
- Turns in a circle to the left then to the right and continues
to alternate for half a minute
- Other bees gather round then fly off
- Honeybee dance Food sources >100m
- Waggles from side to side while running in a straight line
- Turns to left, returns to start of straight line
- Waggle run turns to the right
- Figure of eight
Distance indicated by duration of waggle run
Bearing indicated by the eagle of the waggle run
The waggle dance informs of distance and direction
- Honeybee - Late 1960s Wenner and Wells – Bees just use odour
dance: evidence
- Now: Bees do use info from the dance
- Michelson et al. (1992) – mechanical bee. Bees use distance
and direction info
- Riley et al. (2005) – used transponders to measure flight
paths
- Alarm calls
- Vervet monkeys (Cheney & Seyfarth) Struhsaker (1967)
- Observations in Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
- Found 21 distinct messages (3 major predators: leopards,
eagles, snakes)
- Seyfarth, Cheney and Marler (1980a) identified acoustic
Communication:
- Identify different types of communication in the wild
- Define aspects of language
- Describe attempts to teach human language to animals
- Evaluate - Study ofstudies
Definitioncommunication/language how humans transmit and receive information,
verbally or non-verbally and how this affects their
behaviour, feelings and relationships
- Signal, signaller and receiver
- Poison dart frogs communicate info about themselves via
colouring
- Why do animals - Long term – to survive and reproduce
communicate? - Short term – alarms, food mate attraction
- Communication
- Honey bee dance
in the wild
- Karl von Frisch (started work in 1919)
- Won Nobel prize (with Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen)
in 1973
- Food sources <100m
- Turns in a circle to the left then to the right and continues
to alternate for half a minute
- Other bees gather round then fly off
- Honeybee dance Food sources >100m
- Waggles from side to side while running in a straight line
- Turns to left, returns to start of straight line
- Waggle run turns to the right
- Figure of eight
Distance indicated by duration of waggle run
Bearing indicated by the eagle of the waggle run
The waggle dance informs of distance and direction
- Honeybee - Late 1960s Wenner and Wells – Bees just use odour
dance: evidence
- Now: Bees do use info from the dance
- Michelson et al. (1992) – mechanical bee. Bees use distance
and direction info
- Riley et al. (2005) – used transponders to measure flight
paths
- Alarm calls
- Vervet monkeys (Cheney & Seyfarth) Struhsaker (1967)
- Observations in Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
- Found 21 distinct messages (3 major predators: leopards,
eagles, snakes)
- Seyfarth, Cheney and Marler (1980a) identified acoustic
