Animal Communication, Sexual Signalling and Emotions

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 11 December 2005

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week we learn about animal communication straight from the horses mouth. Dr Gillian Forrester, from the University of Sussex, describes how gorillas use tactile signals to communicate, Dr Katie Slocombe, from the University of St. Andrews, talks about her work on how chimpanzees use certain grunts to refer to specific food sources, Professor Joan Silk, from the University of California, discusses whether chimps are charitable to their chums, Professor Keith Kendrick from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge discusses how sheep recognise emotion, and Dr Vicki Melfi, from Paignton Zoo, tells... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Live from the BBC The Naked Scientists.
0:07.0	Have a good evening to you.
0:08.0	Welcome to this week's edition of The Naked Scientists with me, Dr Chris Smith and we
0:12.0	Dr Cat. Hello! This evening, how animals learn to
0:16.4	talk? Where did they get their communication from? How did we get our communication strategies?
0:21.2	How did we develop language and also do animals have
0:24.5	emotions do they feel pain do they get upset like we do about things to help us
0:28.8	find out about this tonight we have working in Cambridge for the year. Joan Silk. Good evening Joan. Good
0:34.7	evening. Nice to be here. From the University of Sussex we have Julie
0:38.5	forester. Good evening, Julie. Good evening, Chris. And we also have all the way
0:41.8	down from up way north of the border.
0:45.2	Katie.
0:46.2	Hello.
0:47.2	Katie Slocum.
0:48.2	Now if you want to ask them a question, they know all about how animals communicate.
0:51.2	And we're going to be focusing actually on our next nearest
0:52.8	relatives we're going to be talking about guerrillas chimpsies but we're also going to stray into the
0:56.6	marine mammals we're going to talk a bit about dolphins too and also about sheep and believe it or not
1:02.1	sheep get upset when their shepherd is upset and we'll
1:05.2	be finding out more about what that's all about later on in today's show on
1:08.0	kitchen science this week our dynamic kitchen duo Derek and Dave will be taking a trip to the opera to find out how it is that you can smash a glass using your voice.
1:17.5	So in other words how you can use sound waves to destroy things.
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