Animals Communicating with Sounds

Sure, we all know that many animals communicate with sounds. In the morning on a day off from work, listen to the mockingbird during an errand. It is amazing and entertaining, and there are guesses as to why, but it appears to be related to survival.

As a child I asked what sound a certain animal makes, and I was told, "None." It has been discovered over the years that several kinds of creatures that were considered mute actually have some acoustic communications abilities. One study went further.

Turtle singing before audience, made with DeepAI

Using universal common descent evolutionary presuppositions, there was something I found surprising: It was concluded that acousting communication did not evolve multiple times in the groups they studied. Instead of convergent evolution, researchers pushed the problem back into the mists of imagined time. There was one ancestor, but nobody knows what it was. They have no evidence (fossil or otherwise) for evolution in the first place, now this imaginary creature. That's not science, old son. They need to cowboy up and admit there is a Creator.

We are all familiar with vocalizations in the animal world. For example, dogs bark, birds sing, frogs croak, and whales send forth their own distinct sounds. Recently, a detailed investigation has been conducted to determine sounds made by animals previously thought to be mute.

A group of zoologists led by the University of Zurich declare that, “Their study includes evidence for 53 species of four major clades of land vertebrates – turtles, tuataras, caecilians and lungfishes – in the form of vocal recordings and contextual behavioral information accompanying sound production.” The ScienceDaily article stated, “Many turtles, for example, which were thought to be mute are in fact showing broad and complex acoustic repertoires.”

You can read the rest at "Acoustic Communication in Animals."