 Since Millikan aims to give a fully general account of representation, her theory applies not only to mental representations, but also to representational devices that are used for communication between individuals, such as animal signals, linguistic utterances, and even maps and graphs. In these cases, it is whole organisms that count as producers and consumers. One of Millikan’s standard examples is the splash signal that beavers use to warn their conspecifics: the producer of this representation is the beaver that splashes its tail on the water, and the consumers are nearby beavers that react to the signal by diving for cover.