Question: why do dogs not talk like ther are alive and we are alive and we talk why dont they talk?

Sive Finlay answered on 17 Nov 2013:

Hi again ladybird 🙂
Human language is very complicated and requires lots of different physiological abilities to come together. So we can talk because our vocal cords have evolved in a specific way so that we can produce different sounds, our brains have developed language centres to produce and interpret those sounds and we live in social groups so we need to communicate with others. The exact details of how language evolved is still a mystery though.
Animals such as dogs can’t talk in the same way as us because their vocal cords and larynx have different structures and their brains are not as complicated or well-developed as ours. But animals don’t need to able to talk like we do to communicate! Dogs interact and communicate with each other through smells, visual cues (tail wagging, snarling etc.) and probably through vocal cues as well – we just don’t know what they’re saying. They’re also pretty good at getting a point across to humans without the need for language!
So animals don’t talk but they definitely communicate with each other. Some even have a type of language. For example, meerkats produce different alarm calls depending on what type of predator is approaching so they have different calls that mean snake or hawk and the other animals respond differently to those warnings. Also, we probably miss a lot of the communication signals between animals. Our communication is orientated to rely on sight and hearing so we’re not very good at picking up or interpreting the olfactory (smell) or behavioural cues which might be important to a lot of other species.
So you don’t need to talk to get your message heard!
Sive