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| Schomaker, Bill. Digital Image. Audubon Birds. Web. 16 September 2016. |
This week in my organismal biology class I studied Wilson’s Storm Petrels,
a type of bird that spends most of its life on the ocean waters (they really walk on water). An interesting
fact that I liked was that they mate for life! Now the question being posed in
lecture was “How do mates find one another in such a large colony filled with
many other noisy storm petrels?” My classmates and I began bouncing ideas and
predictions off of one another and it turned out that just like us humans, the
Storm Petrels have their own language that they use to essentially talk to one
another. To you and I the Petrels would probably sound the same, but each has their own specific calls that they make. I relate this back
to us in the way that we yell the name of the person we are
looking for if we lose them in a large group.
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| Tan, Simon. Digital Image. Wilson's Storm Petrel Oceanites oceanicus. Oiseaux-Birds. Web. 16 September 2016. |
I find it
very intriguing how similar humans and other species are when it comes to the
different ways we communicate and interact with one another. The Petrel call
will be different when they feel threatened versus when they are with their
mate inside of their burrow. It’s similar to us acting different depending on
the situation presented in front of us. Although we are physically different
from other species, I believe that communication and behavior is the connecting
point for every species.
A.C.
A.C.
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