A honeybee performs a little dance that communicates to other bees the direction and distance of food. Because the bee can "talk" about something that is located elsewhere, its communication system shows . But because the bee can create only utterances that are genetically wired into its repertoire, its communication system lacks .

Displacement is a characteristic type of language which allows for communication about things and events in the future other than those occurring in the present. This type of feature is experienced in Animal communication, in this instance honey bees where they tend to communicate in the moment and cannot effectively communicate to related events that are displaced in time and place.

Communication in animals is carried out by using a mixture of sounds or movements which seem very complex to humans in terms of effective communication because it lack the ability of creation of new sign in the case of new circumstances and therefore lacks Productivity as such animals cannot understand and create a new sign to express an indefinitely large condition since the utterances they can create have been genetically wired into their repertoire.