Why can't animals talk? Detailed answer

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Why can't animals talk?

Most animals can communicate with each other, but none of them can talk like humans can. That is, no animal uses words. Birds scream and make sounds that are well understood by other birds. Animals resort to the help of smell, movements, sounds for communication, they can express joy, anger, fear. But human speech is a very complex process and no animal can reproduce it.

One of the reasons for this is that a person has a whole series of organs with the help of which he pronounces the sounds that make up words. Our vocal cords vibrate in a special way, the larynx, oral and nasal cavities are tuned in a special way, lips, teeth, lower jaw, tongue and palate move. Everything is arranged in order to pronounce vowels and consonants, which animals cannot do. They cannot produce a whole series of sounds to form a word and a sentence.

There is another, more important reason why animals don't talk. Words are only symbols of objects, actions, sensations, experiences, ideas. For example, the word "bird" is a symbol for a living flying object. Other words denote its color, shape, flight and singing. The third group of words can be used to convey what the speaker thinks about the bird and its actions. The use of words means the use of symbols arranged in a certain way to make contact with another person. This requires a certain amount of intelligence, which animals do not have. Therefore, they cannot talk like a human does.

Author: Likum A.

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Which animal lives the longest?

There are many legends and stories about long-lived animals. But most of them are greatly exaggerated. Let's talk about some real world records in this area.

Among mammals, the elephant is usually considered the longest-lived. They say that there are individuals who have lived 150-200 years, but this has not been proven by anyone. It is possible that some elephant lived for about a hundred years, but the recorded record is only a little over 60 years.

The horse shares with the elephant the championship in longevity. Many cases are known when they live for more than 50 years. And here are other unquestioned facts of longevity: a hippopotamus - 41 years, a rhinoceros - 40, a bear - 34, monkeys - more than 20 years, cats - about 23, dogs - 22 years. These data refer to individual animals and have not been averaged.

Among birds, parrots and eagles are sometimes said to live for over 100 years. But again, this has not been proven. And as far as proven facts are concerned, the longest-lived bird species that have ever existed are the condor - 52 years, the parrot - 54, the eagle - 55, the white pelican - 51. Among the small birds: the starling - 17 years, the canary - 22, English sparrow - 23, cardinal - 30.

There are a lot of legends about different fish. Carp are considered to be long-lived, but the oldest carp is known to have lived only to 25 years. European catfish, according to reliable data, lived for more than 60 years in an English lake. But the American eel, as it became known, has reached the age of 50.

And finally, it's time to say who the longevity champion is. This is a turtle. One tortoise, known as the "Moorish tortoise", lived to be 152 years old and some biologists suggest it may live to be 200 years old. And one more indisputable fact. The "royal tortoise" native to the United States can live up to 123 years!

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