Communications, Interspecies

Interspecies communications is a phenomenon and an area of study. The systematic study of communications within and between species is an emerging discipline that seeks to find ways to develop human communications with other species and to identify and understand communications between different species. Communications, the sending of messages that have intelligent or rational [Page 322]meanings that can be comprehended, takes places when feelings or thoughts are shared between one life form and another. Intraspecies communications occurs between members of the same species. Interspecies communications occurs between members of different species. From the most ancient times, people have observed species communicating among themselves. Fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals communicate in forms of intraspecies communications.

Beginning in prehistoric times, humans began to domesticate wild dogs, donkeys, hawks, ...