Critter Code Sparks Coding Game

Critter Code Sparks Coding Game

Play Critter Code Sparks, an educational game designed to help players learn coding and programming concepts through interactive gameplay.

Chapter 1

The secret language of cells

Chapter 2

Whispering woods and talking trees

Chapter 3

The animal chatterbox

Chapter 4

Microbe meetings and fungal internets

Ch 3 · The animal chatterbox
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sonia Honeybees perform a waggle dance to share food locations

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Dancing the directions

sonia A bee's waggle dance uses angles relative to vertical to show food direction from the sun, and run duration to communicate distance.

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Quiz

What does the angle of a honeybee's waggle dance tell other bees?

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Quiz

Which scientist won a Nobel Prize in 1973 for decoding the honeybee waggle dance?

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Collective survival relies on a shared way of interpreting the world.

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Dialects of the deep

sonia Marine biosemiotics shows that cetacean vocalizations are culturally transmitted languages, not instincts.

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Quiz

How do young whales acquire their specific pod's vocal dialect?

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What is the term for the rhythmic patterns of clicks used by sperm whales to identify their group?

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Fun Fact

Prairie dog warnings: Prairie dogs have specific alarm chirps that describe a predator's size, shape, color, and speed to their colony.

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Critter Code Sparks
BETA

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Quiz

What trick do predatory Photuris fireflies use to catch their prey?

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How do male and female fireflies primarily find each other in the dark?

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Glossary
zoosemiotics (noun)
The study of semiotic processes, signs, and communication among non-human animals. American semiotician Thomas Sebeok coined the term in 1963 to analyze how animals exchange signals.

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sonia The Master of Animal Signs

The master of animal signs! (Oh, the master of signs!) / An atomic priesthood to guard the shrines! (To guard the shrines!)

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Quiz

What major academic bridge did Thomas Sebeok help construct with his work?

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In what year did Thomas Sebeok coin the term 'zoosemiotics'?

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Gossip

Which animal communication style is most impressive?

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