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animal communication


As mentioned briefly in previous post, I'm subsequently noticing animal noises more often. In particular birds, because there are usually several of them over a wide area, so the sense of communication in your total environment is more profound. As a result it seems a lot has been written about bird communication and / or language. We don't even know if it qualifies as communication, but it has the same sense as reading something in a language unknown to you - there's a point, but you don't know what it is.

Do birds have a sense of individuality or do they exist as a group entity, or even purely as the environment itself? In this way, the environment communicates itself.

Not, then, too dissimilar to a human in a room noticing his own conscious awareness through 'conversation' with his environment. What then, is the boundary of this person, who is not separate and cut-off from the communication of the world?

Here's a quick recording whilst sat next to a river, trying to get the rhythm or structure of all the sounds. I'm  also using it practically to see how birds use the limits of their vocal organs to produce a variety of dynamic noises. Notice later how the police / ambulance siren chirps in. Is this connected or separate?