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The importance of communication between animals cannot be underestimated. Through communication, animals are able to concentrate on finding food, avoiding their enemies, mating and caring for their young. The study of communication is a never ending fascination and a way to learn more about ourselves and the way we express our thoughts and information. Humans are compulsive communicators and although we cannot out smell, out run or out see many other animal species, it is …

…usually with the mother. The latter include pointing, tugging, voice sounds, eye contact, gestures, and mimetic whole body movement. Even when the young child is talking to itself, it is usually in a mimetic context. And so finally, the distinctively disparate separation that has come to define the communicative line between animals, and ourselves is now what enables us to continue behaving towards them in the often-brutal manner to which we have collectively grown accustomed.