What do animals say to each other? A book explains their “code language”

It is always said that animals have no voice, that they only lack words. IS instead they are great talkers! They won’t have Whatsapp and cell phones, but they know perfectly well how to communicate with each other and they do it all the time. IS from this dense exchange of signals and directions their very survival depends.

Yes “chat” to share food, to seduce a partner and reproduce, or to attract parental attention. Even to make peace. Or again to mark the borders of its territory, to win a duel, to warn others of the arrival of a predator or to escape its clutches.

Someone even calls friends to the rescue and someone else is an incurable liar.

From our garden to the rainforests, from the park under our house to the depths of the ocean, the air and water are teeming with messages we often don’t know. Or that we don’t know how to interpret. But to explain the “coded messages” who exchange animals think about it the new book by the naturalist and scientific journalist Francesca Buoninconti: Look Who’s Talking. What animals say to each other (Editions Code, pages 384, € 24.00).

How does the crocodile do it? And are the fish really dumb? Why do chameleons change color? Do birds sing every time they open their beak? And the dolphins are called by name? But above all really can animals lie? And why do they do it? If at least once in your life you have asked yourself one of these questions, this is the book for you. A book full of stories and curiosities about the animal world, with illustrations by Federico Gemma.

A fun guide to decipher the “voices” of animals, which are not only made of sounds, but also of colors and dances, various stinks and smells. Because basically, as Cesare Pavese wrote, “the whole problem of life is this: how to break one’s loneliness, how to communicate with others».