Animated profiles of small sound and gesture units heard and seen in animal repertoires, from elephants to canids to jacky dragons.

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~ Shortly and sweetly ~

Last time we met "talking animals" trained by humans to speak. This time let's turn our eyes and ears toward "wild" communication systems. Part 4 of Grammanimals shows off some of my favorite one syllable repertoires from felids, elephants, giraffes, canids, jacky dragons and rats. We'll get mere hints of more complex sequences to come.

Please watch parts 1 through 3 for background and buildup. Next time, are nonhuman "syllables" at all "wordlike"? Are they linguistically meaningful?

~ Resources ~

Art, animation and music by me. I wrote a sources document to back up claims and to give credit for all images, fonts and sounds:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t...

In that same document I link to groups focused on animals, their habitats and the people who care for them. There's a narrative tiein that I hope works at the end of the series; meanwhile I'll just mention and link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t...