The animals speak

''This book of movies is very incomplete. None of the chapters is completed.''

Speech is the voluntary emission of signals to influence the imagination and the will of those who receive them.

We don't have to teach how to speak to animals because they already speak, we just have to learn how they speak. We have to listen, to try to understand what they say, to talk to them and to try to understand how they understand us. We must understand their language from their point of view, not ours. Animals speak as we do, with their emotions, which are universal, or almost universal, in the animal world, and with their whole body. Dance is the universal language, not only for human beings, but also for all animals.

Speech between individuals of different species is widespread in the animal world, but human beings most often don't know it. Animals know that they can talk with all other animals, except with most human beings, who are too ignorant, and deaf to the universal language, to participate in this feast.

All chapters are independent of each other and can be read and seen in any order except the first, which is really the first. The list of species lists all the films, species by species.

Table of chapters
 * /The basic speech/
 * /The eyes speak /
 * /The happiness of lovers/
 * /The happiness of parents/
 * /The ears speak/
 * /The port of head/
 * /The gait/
 * /Aggression and defense/
 * /Cries and songs/
 * /The expression of emotions/
 * /The honor of the leaders/
 * /Living together/


 * /Head of Gold, White Face and Dark Face/
 * /A lemur is born/
 * /The hunters/
 * /Kings and Queens/
 * /The panthers of Love/
 * /The wild beasts of the african island/
 * /A small family of Northern white-cheeked gibbons/
 * /Three white pelicans/
 * /Mallards of the Rose Garden/
 * /Greylag geese of the lake of the Head of Gold/
 * /Living till the tip of branches/
 * /Lulu/
 * /The fearful/
 * /The little world of capuchin monkeys/
 * /The united ones/
 * /The social life of pigeons/
 * /Fisherbirds/
 * /White-faced whistlers/
 * /Starry turtles/
 * /Amazons/
 * /Two demoiselles/

List of species (in alphabetical order)

Black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata, in /Living till the tip of branches/)

Cape teal (Anas capensis, in //)

Crocodile of the Nile (Crocodylus niloticus, in /The hunters/)

Demoiselle crane (Grus virgo, in /Two demoiselles/)

Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca, in //)

Fulvous whistling duck, or fulvous tree duck (Dendrocygna bicolor, in /The wild beasts of the african island/)

Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis, in /Kings and Queens/)

Golden-bellied capuchin, or yellow-breasted or buffy-headed capuchin (Sapajus xanthosternos, in /The little world of capuchin monkeys/)

Golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas, in /Head of Gold, White Face and Dark Face/)

Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus, in /A lemur is born/)

Grey gibbon, or Müller's Bornean gibbon (Hylobates muelleri, in /Lulu/)

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea, in /Fisherbirds/)

Greylag goose (Anser anser, in /Greylag geese of the lake of the Head of Gold/)

Lilacine amazon, or Ecuadorian red-lored amazon (Amazona lilacina), in /Amazons/)

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos, in /Mallards of the Rose Garden/

Nile lechwe, or Mrs Gray's lechwe (Kobus megaceros, in //)

Northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys, in /A small family of Northern white-cheeked gibbons/)

Panther (Panthera pardus, in /The panthers of Love)

Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus, in /Three white pelicans/)

Pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor, in /The fearful/)

Pigeon (Columba livia, in /The social life of pigeons/)

Radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata, in /Starry turtles/)

Red-bellied lemur (Eulemur rubriventer, in /The united ones/)

White-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia, in /Head of Gold, White Face and Dark Face/)

White-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata, in /White-faced whistlers/)

(Bos primigenius, in //)

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