How does a parrot make words sound right without lips?
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Its not well understood, but they may use their tongues
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Well I have read that a frog's tongue actually is directed down its throat when not in use, this is becasue the base of the tongue is actually attached at the front of the mouth, this would give it a downward pointing orientation when inside the mouth, so it would only make sense that the tongue would be slightly upward when outside the mouth. You have to remember that it is not as soft and evolved as the tongue of a chameleon, the frog's tongue is somewhat more rigid.
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whistle instead of talking.
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Actually, no it doesn't. The sound you hear is actually vibrations in your ear that your brain converts to noise. So if there are no living creatures with ears and brains around to 'hear' it, it does not make a noise...just some air vibrations going all over the place.
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that is an ancient question like Which came first, Chicken or Egg.  Nobody knows that answer for sure.\nI believe it does not make noise, as noise is something that is created inside the head which has ears that interpret the vibrations as sound.  No ears, no sound.\nClarkie's theory on Tree Noise.
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How fast the wings beat depends on species, its weight, and what it is doing.\n\nTake the simple case:  a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, hovering in open space, has a wingbeat rate of about 50-52 times per second, which sounds like a low hum and is responsible for the American name, "humming bird."  Another onomatopoeic name, in which the word sounds like its meaning, is the Cuban name for hummingbird, "zum-zum."  \n\nThink about that:  50 times per second is equal to 3,000 times per minute!\n\ncheck this url out for more info:\nhttp://www.hummingbirdsociety.org/eletters/Hummingbirds.On-Line.Issue.5.htm
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Guppies don't really hear... And if they did, it wouldn't be by their gills. They use their gills to breathe. Instead, they follow vibrations. I'm not quite sure how, but I think they have a sense organ that detects vibrations in the water.
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i used to not be able to say my 'r's' then one day the school told me i had to go to speech therapy, and i cried bcuz the lady scared me. so my sister taught me how to say them, she made me practice all the time. saying car and rooster. overpronouncing them to start out with helps
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It is sure that animals are able to produce sounds.\nAlso they have a "vocabulary" (dogs for example make\n5-6 diferent sounds meaning different things.\n\nThis is not speach!!!!\nTalking means thousands of diferent "sounds" meaning\nthousands of different things. Talking is complex and\nneeds a complex brain. Thats why they dont talk.
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The tongue of birds is usually dry and keratinized (horny), therefore not much of its anterior dorsal surface is very sensitive. However, they possess taste buds that may be in the epithelial lining of the upper beak, in the anterior mandible, on the mandibular epithelium behind the tongue, and also ventrolaterally on the anterior tongue.
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A COCKATOO BIRD,WAIT IT SOUNDS LIKE HE HAS TWO?
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I would call it singing like a bird, because birds have two sets of vocal cords. That's why some birds are able to sing two different parts of a song at the same time.
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They do indeed have vocal chords (larynx).  PLEASE stop believing people and trivia books/sites that say they do not.  Distressed giraffes, especially mothers with young, will utter a mooing noise.  It is also likely that giraffes communicate with infrasound.  It is so low that we humans cannot hear it.  Elephants communicate this way, as well.  It carries well over long distances.
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Well, you don't wanna sound like daffy duck by saying "filippines" which can sound like filiffines or pilipino...w/ too many hard p sounds. I think it's spelled that way for ease in pronounciation.
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Dragons Naturally Speaking
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Yes, they can talk.  Not like humans, but they have a rather sophisticated way of communicating which usually includes vocalizations and body language.
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No, all animals do not breathe like us.\n\nBirds for example have an very different arrangement to their lungs. You and I have to take a breath in to absorb air and then take a  breathe in and then breathe out to expel it. A bird takes a breath in and a breath out at the same time. Every breath for a bird absorbs air and expels used air at the same time. That makes birds far more efficient at breathing than a human and also makes them far better at singing since they can make sound even while breathing in if they wish.\n\nMost land animals don't even have lungs and don't need to draw air into their bodies. Instead they absorb air directly  through their skin.\n\nEven something as similar to us as a frog can breathe mostly thorough its skin. All frogs have lungs that they can use to breathe but the lungs are used mainly for when the whether is dry. Many species of frogs have very small lungs, and the lungs can be surgically removed without having any effects at all on the frog. So long as the skin is kept wet a frog is perfectly capable of breathing through its skin.\n\nAnimals like slugs, snails and worms also breathe through their skin.\n\nIn the case of worms they have no other organs to breathe with. They are entirely dependent on their skin to breathe and the skin has to be kept wet or they suffocate.\n\nSnails breathe not just through their skin but also through a set of gills tucked up under the shell. It might seem strange that a land animal would use gills to breathe, but snails evolved from sea animals and have retained the same method of breathing.\n\nSpiders also use what is really a modified gill in order to breathe. The gill consists of a set of plates, like the pages in a book, hanging inside a pouch on the back segment of their body.\n\nInsects can't breathe very much through their skins, but they don't breathe through their mouths like we do. They instead have a series of holes along their sides that they use to breathe through. Those holes are connected to a series of pipes that run right through the animal. Imagine a person with holes in their side the size of the cardboard roles from toilet paper. You could see right into the holes all the way to the heart or guts, and those holes are the way that air gets into the body. Insects use pretty much that method. It's pretty , weird but it works for them.\n\nThere are many other ways that land animals breathe, but those are the main ones. Either they breathe through their skins like frogs or worms do, the have modified gills like snails or spiders or they have tubes running through their bodies as insects do.