Question: How many animals do you think can communicate efficiently and do you this this number will increase?

Carrie Ijichi answered on 17 Mar 2017:

All animals can communicate really efficiently in so many different ways. If you’re asking about how many could communicate to each other at one time that’s a cool question. Communication involves anyone who sends a signal and anyone who receives that signal and changes their behaviour as a result. You could have only one animals sending a signal but an entire group responding and they would all have been communicating so that could be lots of animals. it depends on how far the signal can travel effectively to reach the most animals. One lion might leave a chemical signal on a tree but lots of animals smell it and respond over days or weeks so could be a huge number!