1 Animal Play and Animal Communication by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen
Amazing Animals SNEEZING PANDA: SPIDERS ON DRUGS: TORTOISES: 2
Which came first, the chicken, or the egg? 3
More Amazing Animals ANIMAL POWER MOVES: CRAZY HONEY BADGER (CONTAINS BAD LANGUAGE): 4
Fish and Birds 5
Birds LYRE BIRD: 6
Cats 7
Wake Up Cat If you are a cat lover, do you recognize these behaviors? 8
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Cats I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER WEB SITE: LOLCAT BIBLE: SAD CAT DIARY: 10
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Nora’s CATcerto 13
Animals Helping…and Being Helped 14
Cats and Dogs CINDERELLA ANIMALS—IF THE SHOE FITS…: CATS VS. DOGS PLAYING: 15
Cats and Dogs 16
Dogs LONELY DOGS TUCK THEMSELVES INTO BED: 17
Cats, Dogs & Babies 18
Personified Dog 19
Dogs and Photo Bombing 20
Dogs, Cats & Children 21
Ducks 22
Duck Photography 23
Cat and Mouse Cat Leisure 24
Cats Reading and Sleeping 25
Animal Doppelgangers 26
Grumpy Cat! 27
Grumpy Cat lives in Phoenix, Arizona people came to get their pictures taken with Grumpy Cat. This event was at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona.
Mummy Cat Why were cats revered in Egypt? 29
Donkeys and Camel Look-Alikes 30
Rhinoceros Why are rhinos becoming extinct? 31
Thelma and Louise: The Movie The Two-Headed Turtle 32
Warning! 33
34 DO ANIMALS HAVE “LANGUAGE?” No animals learn a human-type language. However, some animal languages are impressive:
35 “TALKING” ANIMALS: ants bees (Von Frisch) birds (Alcock): parrots and cockatiels (Patterson) bovines canines equines (Clever Hans) felines (Nilsen cat) fish: dolphins (Lilly) primates (Vikki-Hayes, Koko-Patterson, Warshow- Gardners, Lana, Nim Chimsky-Terrace, Sarah- Thomas/Church)
36 ANIMAL LANGUAGE: Attacking Baring Throat Body Coloring and Shape Calls Chuttering Facial Expression Giving Off Pheromones Singing Tail Slapping Tail Wagging Dancing (Round, Tail-wagging, Sickle) Whistling
Lizards: Hungry and InLove 37
38 ANIMAL MESSAGES: Attention Come Defiance Dominance Food Friendship Go Mimicry (for deception and for bonding) Protection (camouflage, assistance, misleading enemies…) Sex Territory
Animal Politics 39
Rabbit vs. Snake: 40
41 BEES’ ROUND DANCE (Kemp & Smith 663)
42 BEES’ TAIL-WAGGING DANCE (Kemp and Smith 664)
Cat Shape Shifters 43
44 HUMAN-LANGUAGES AMONG ANIMALS: AMESLAN Computers Creations: “Sugar Fruit,” “Finger Bracelet” Magnetic Chips Yerkish NOTE: Some mother primates have taught sign language to their daughters; is this like Planet of the Apes?
45 WASHOE SIGNING “TICKLE” (Kemp and Smith 671)
46 SARAH’S SYMBOLS (Kemp and Smith 672)
47 YERKISH LEXIGRAMS (Kemp and Smith 672)
48 LOL Cats and “Kitty Pidgin”
49 Li’l LOL Cat
50 LOL Cats Fighting
51 LOLrus
Dolphins DOLPHIN BUBBLES: 52
53 Monorail LOL Cat
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55 Capitalist LOL Cat
56 LOL Cat with Invisible Bike
57 LOL Cat with Invisible Football
58 LOL Cat with Invisible Sandwich
59 See! I told you so!
The Great Chain of Being 60
Happy Birthday Elephants 61
Point of View Pug Factory Vampire Bats—Upside Down 62
So be always be on the lookout for animal play! 63
64 Humans TRICK PLAY IN FOOTBALL:
Come to Australia: Deadly Animals Version: 65