Lili Chin’s “Doggie Language”:
Or maybe I should say the “body communication” of dogs.
More Lili Chin dogs here; a fair tolerance for cuteness is required.
(Hat tip to Robin Queen, via Facebook.)
Archive for the ‘Animal communication’ Category
The body language of dogs
April 18, 2012F**k You, Penguin
September 14, 2011A gift from my friend Ellen Evans: Matthew Gasteier’s 2009 book F**k You, Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What’s What — combining my first totem animal (the penguin), taboo vocabulary, and taboo avoidance, all in one package.
Thomas Eisner
March 31, 2011In today’s NYT, an obit (by Kenneth Chang) for Cornell professor of chemistry Thomas Eisner, who with his colleague Jerrold Meinwald founded the field of chemical ecology, together exploring how insects use complex chemistry “to repel predators, attract mates and protect their young” — in particular, how they use chemical signals to communicate (not what you usually think of when you think of animal communication).
What animals hear
March 29, 2011
Bird rage
August 4, 2009
Talking cats
March 25, 2009Nico Muhly’s latest posting on his blog is mostly about language, but it also supplies a weird YouTube clip, “She’s a Talker”. Students of English dialect phonetics might also enjoy the variety of realizations of the accented vowel in talker.
(Hat tip to Ned Deily.)
Swearing like a parrot
February 13, 2009From Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine:
