What's the closest any animal species has come to evolving to have telepathy?

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• Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Humans can be pretty good at exchanging information with only the most subtle body movements.

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  • baggins@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My cat knows when it’s time to go to bed. She also has a form of mind control to help her get snacks.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My cat’s are telepathic with each other. If they want something they both stare at me until they get what they want, and somehow I know what they want when they stare at me.

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• tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  None really since proper telepathy, defined as “extrasensory communication” doesn’t exist. There has to be some physical way to send and recieve information and being able to pick up a physical signal is what a sense is. So if you communicate, it’s always sensory.

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  • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If a species used radio communication, I don’t think I’d be against people calling it telepathy.

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    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But it would be rather inconsistent. It’s just another part of the electromagnetic spectrum and we wouldn’t call visual communication telepathy.

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pigeons have an organ in the brain that allows them to sense the earth’s magnetic field.

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cat and dog. Telepathy is a skill that allow a user to communicate without speaking or body language, my cat doesn’t even need meowing and i just know she want food. Some naysayer will claim it’s because she sit in front of her food bowl but those are just unfounded claim.

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• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No expert here, but Toxoplasma gondii come to mind.

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