Communication with the Other (Spencer Mottley)

  While it might not seem obvious to the untrained eye. Animals and even plants have the ability to

convey many messages to humans even though they don't speak our languages. One might ask how

this is possible? But communication with the "other" is very possable if you can read body language,

physical condition, and behavoir. For instance a dog when happy often wags it's tail, is content

(when not hyper) and generally is in fairly good physical health, when a dog is being defensive or

agressive it's ears will be tucked behind it's head, it's teeth will be showing and the dog will be growling.

With plants it's a little more complicated due to the fact they typically don't show complex behaviors or

body language like animals do. Instead plants primarily convey messages through their physical condition. 

If you have ever owned a house plant you know, if the plant is droopy has yellow leaves or is droping alot

of leaves it is in poor health. On the contrary if the plant is standing up straight, is growing and has green

firm leaves it most likely is in good health. This discussion on communicating with "others" left me with a

question, how can humans themselves communicate to others? To my knowledge it is not really possable

for humans to commicate with plants, although we certainly can commicate with animals through speech.

While animals don't know the meanings of the words we say (for the most part) they can pick up on the

tone of our voice. When we speech calmly or a light high pitch voice they know we are being friendly. On

the other hand when we yell or speek with a deep firm voice they know we are angry. 

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