Winnifred Bolinsky's fifth-grade class is investigating how animals
communicate. They researched the topic and found out that animals communicate
to find food, avoid danger, attract mates, and raise their young.
They found several ways that animals use to signal: by sound or vibration,
sight, scent, and touch.
They wanted to investigate how dogs communicate with their owners, so they
took a survey of the class.
Their results show that most dogs sit by the door and bark or cry when they
went to go outside. When they are hungry, dogs sit by their food bowls. Often
when dogs want to play, they bark and run around. Some of them hide or lie
down to let their owners know when they are sad.
The class would like to know more about how dogs as well as other pets
communicate with their owners. Since their sample size was small, they would
like to collect more information. They would like anyone who has pets to fill
out their survey and then they can see if pets around the country communicate
in the same ways.
The results will be published in a future issue of Dragonfly!
Click on the wolf's head 
to fill out the survey!
