Archive for March, 2009


Communing with Koalas

Sometimes I initiate a communication with an animal but frequently they initiate contact first. Last year my husband and I were staying on Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef. We really wanted to commune with the tropical fish and turtles of the reef. But to my delight I found a small animal zoo on [...]

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Collective consciousness

Have you ever heard of a scenario in which two people, one on either side of the world, independently comes up with the same idea? Have you ever wondered how an entire species of animal seems to know or learn something all at once? For example, in Australia, crows have learned to flip over poisonous [...]

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What is animal communication?

It’s a good question. From my perspective, there are two forms of communication with animals. The first, is the type of communication that is involved in training and day-to-day cooperative living. So horse whisperers and the natural horsemanship movement, for example, has done tremendous good work on behalf of horses in showing us how to [...]

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