Biosemiotics and the Master of Animal Signs
To protect humanity ten thousand years in the future, the founder of zoosemiotics proposed creating an 'atomic priesthood' that would use folklore and mythical curses to warn people away from buried radioactive waste.
The secret language of cells
Whispering woods and talking trees
The animal chatterbox
Microbe meetings and fungal internets
sonia A bee's waggle dance uses angles relative to vertical to show food direction from the sun, and run duration to communicate distance.
sonia Marine biosemiotics shows that cetacean vocalizations are culturally transmitted languages, not instincts.
What is the term for the rhythmic patterns of clicks used by sperm whales to identify their group?
Prairie dog warnings: Prairie dogs have specific alarm chirps that describe a predator's size, shape, color, and speed to their colony.
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.
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!)