If we're animals why do we talk?

Question

If we're animals why do we talk?

Answer 1

Because only recent Homonids, including Neanderthals, developed a hyoid bone, which forms a special type of canal at the base of the throat which can regulate breathing & speaking (Pausing for several breaths)...

The other primates...Gorillas, chimps, and monkeys with tails, do NOT have this adaptation...

The other "animals", including primates, are restricted to breathing involuntarily. Later Homonids can control their breathing voluntarily, when necessary...

Answer 2

Animals do talk just in there own language

Answer 3

FIsh  and fowl talk too, we just can't understand them.

Answer 4

All animals communicate in some form.

We have evolved over the many millenia of our existance, and so too has our means of communication.

If anthropologists are to be believed, we didn't always use words...and words are not our only means of communication.

Answer 5

We are animals, but we talk because our level of intelligence is way higher than that of other animals. Other animals have other means of communication like sign language and simple sounds like howling, shouting and others

Answer 6

We have the capacity and the desire to do so.

Answer 7

because we have evoved to have a larynx

Answer 8

we talk because we are the highest of all animals who are given the will and intellect by God.

Answer 9

Whales and dolphins talk up a storm in their own language. We just don't understand it..........yet.

Monkeys, dogs, and some other animals, seem to understand somewhat when we tell them something. They just can't answer in our language.

Answer 10

We are talking animals. Just a different species in the same family.

That is all.

Answer 11

oh that's rich!

People suck.

Answer 12

what?!

were not animals...were human.