Group-five-EL-101-Animal-Consciousnes.pptx

ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS


What is Consciousness?
1. One is being aware especially of something within oneself
2. Individual awareness of one’s unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments.
Animal Consciousness
- Is the quality or state within a non-human animal
Critical Thinking
- Capacities to think, reason, analyze and make logical decisions.
- Instinctual behavior could not define consciousness.
Language Capacity
- Animals can communicate with each other but they are not considered to have a language.
Animal Language
- Animals don’t have the ability to put words together to form sentences
Animal Communication
- Vocalization
- Non-vocal noises
- Smell
- Color
- Visual displays
How do Animals communicate?
- Animals can transmit information to another animal causing some kind of change in the animal that gets the information
- Communication may happen between animals of the same species or animals of different species


Two Modes of Animal Communication
Visual
-seeing
-involves gesture
-body posture
-facial expression
-facial gestures
Auditory
-hearing
-perceive sounds by detecting it through the ears
Common Forms of Animal Communication
Pheromones
- Chemical signal used to trigger a response in another individual of the same species
- Common among social insects such as ants
Auditory Signals
- The communication based on sounds and is widely used in the animal kingdom
Visual Signals
- Involves signals that can be seen ( gestures, facial expressions, body postures, and coloration)
Tactile Signals
- Limited range than the other two types of signals, as two organisms must be right next to each other in order to touch.
Animals Purpose of Communication
• Obtaining mates
• Establishing dominance or defending territory
• Coordinating group behaviors
• Caring for young

1. ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS

2. What is Consciousness? One is being aware especially of something within oneself Individual awareness of one’s unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments . Animal Consciousness Is the quality or state within a non-human animal

3. Critical Thinking - Capacities to think, reason, analyze and make logical decisions. -Instinctual behavior could not define consciousness. Language Capacity -Animals can communicate with each other but they are not considered to have a language.

4. Animal Language Animals don’t have the ability to put words together to form sentences Animal Communication Vocalization Non-vocal noises Smell Color Visual displays  

5. How do Animals communicate? Animals can transmit information to another animal causing some kind of change in the animal that gets the information Communication may happen between animals of the same species or animals of different species

6. Two Modes of Animal Communication Visual -seeing -involves gesture -body posture Auditory -hearing -perceive sounds by detecting it through the ears

7. Common Forms of Animal Communication Pheromones Chemical signal used to trigger a response in another individual of the same species Common among social insects such as ants Auditory Signals The communication based on sounds and is widely used in the animal kingdom Visual Signals Involves signals that can be seen ( gestures, facial expressions, body postures, and coloration)

8. Common Forms of Animal Communication Tactile Signals Limited range than the other two types of signals, as two organisms must be right next to each other in order to touch. Animals Purpose of Communication Obtaining mates Establishing dominance or defending territory Coordinating group behaviors Caring for young