How good are you at imitating birds, elk, or other animals?

 

When learning any language, one of the first skills is to learn the sounds that make up the language. Sounds have basic components, such as frequency or pitch (high vs low notes), duration, and amplitude or volume...which when combined in certain ways create ever increasingly larger units of sounds such as phonemes and syllables that are in turn combined to form morphemes, words, sentences, discourses used to communicate "meaning" and "information" to others. By watching how your voice sounds when you imitate another species, you can gain insights in to how that animal communicates.