9 Weird Ways Animals Communicate

We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other! Demon Mole Rat images: http://www.wired.com/2013/10/head-banging-demon-mole-rats-just-want-to-be-left-alone/ Hosted by: Micheal Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Andreas Heydeck, Thomas J., Accalia Elementia, Will and Sonja Marple. James Harshaw, Justin Lentz, Chris Peters, Bader AlGhamdi, Benny, Tim Curwick, Philippe von Bergen, Patrick Merrithew, Fatima Iqbal, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Patrick D. Ashmore, and charles george. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Elephants: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/cyclotis/language/infrasound.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0303_040303_elephants.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june1/elephant-052505.html Tarsiers: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/02/tarsiers-communicate-secret-speech http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/01/27/rsbl.2011.1149 Prairie dogs: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/132650631/new-language-discovered-prairiedogese http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/catch-the-wave-decoding-the-prairie-doge28099s-contagious-jump-yips/ Mole rats: http://www.wired.com/2013/10/head-banging-demon-mole-rats-just-want-to-be-left-alone/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/headbanging-comes-to-the-golan-heights-israeli-mole-rats-thump-their-skulls-to-keep-in-touch-writes-1537952.html Caribbean sperm whales: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150908-sperm-whale-culture-vocalizations-animals-oceans-galapagos-science/ http://phys.org/news/2016-02-caribbean-sperm-whales-regional-dialect.html http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/1/150372 White rhinos: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/everything-you-didnt-know-about-animals/videos/rhino-poop-communication/ http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-014-0810-8#/page-1 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213000110 http://wildlifeact.com/blog/what-is-a-rhino-midden/ Caribbean Reef Squid: http://www2.clarku.edu/departments/biology/biol201/2010/erross/reefsquid.html http://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/geol/fachrichtungen/pal/eigenproduktion/Band_03/05.pdf http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=286 Coral grouper: http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/29/fish-uses-sign-language-with-other-species/ http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n4/full/ncomms2781.html Singing caterpillars: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2014/04/11/caterpillars-sneak-into-ant-nests-by-singing-like-queens/#.V09-4vkrKUl http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0094341 http://www.academia.edu/18275464/Behavioural_aspects_of_adoption_of_Maculinea_caterpillars_by_Myrmica_ants