Editing Animal communication (section)

== Animal languages ==
The sounds animals make are important because they communicate the animals' state.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Warren |first=Michael |date=2018 |title=Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication ed. by Alison Langdon |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/711651 |journal=Studies in the Age of Chaucer |language=en |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=491–495 |doi=10.1353/sac.2018.0028 |s2cid=165256417 |issn=1949-0755|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Some animals species have been taught simple versions of human languages.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Beecher |first=Michael D. |date=2021 |title=Why Are No Animal Communication Systems Simple Languages? |journal=Frontiers in Psychology |volume=12 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602635 |issn=1664-1078 |pmc=8018278 |pmid=33815200 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Animals can use, for example, [[Electroreception and electrogenesis|electrolocation]] and [[Animal echolocation|echolocation]] to communicate about [[Predation|prey]] and location.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Te K. |last2=Allen |first2=Kathryne M. |last3=Moss |first3=Cynthia F. |date=2021-11-09 |title=Communication with self, friends and foes in active-sensing animals |journal=Journal of Experimental Biology |volume=224 |issue=22 |doi=10.1242/jeb.242637 |pmid=34752625 |s2cid=243940410 |issn=0022-0949|doi-access=free |bibcode=2021JExpB.224B2637J }}</ref>