Only humans have language. Inter-species communication is nothing special. Rattlesnakes are named for their ability to communicate cross species.
Interspecies linguistics
Submitted 3 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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yesman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
blackluster117@possumpat.io 3 months ago
“Either back it up or get fucked up.”
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
curious how it’s always humans saying that they’re the only ones who have language…
Droechai@lemm.ee 3 months ago
it’s only humans capable of the sub communication protocol called English that says that
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Only humans have language.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
They identified nouns and adjectives in prairie dog communication, that also seems to vary with regional dialects. I’ll try to remember to dig up a source when I’m not out and about later.
tamal3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Weren’t science communicators talking about parts of speech in whale communication last year, too? They’re using AI to identify patterns and variations in speech.
Here’s a general (though older) overview of whale language: www.britannica.com/…/the-language-of-whales
Here’s a more recent article taking about using AI to identify patterns in speech: scitechdaily.com/ai-decodes-sperm-whale-language-…
Murdeth@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I appreciate your disclaimers and context of your sources.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That’s cool as hell and animals definitely have all kinds of methods of communication that I’m sure we haven’t figured out yet - but it’s not language.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
What is this strange group on Lenny that is so anti animal intelligence?
na_th_an@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A rattlesnake can certainly communicate using sound, but is that language? Bright colors can communicate ideas of “do not eat this” across species as well, but they wouldn’t fit my mental model of a language.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
what is language than making sounds to convey meaning and then decoding said sounds to understand their meaning
human language is incredibly complex but a bee just buzzing a particular buzz that means “bear nearby” counts as a valid form of linguistic communication imo
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Koko the gorilla would beg to differ
Droechai@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Just gonna drop this, I haven’t done a deep dive in sources thoufh
Haggunenons@lemmy.world 3 months ago
For anyone interested we have a commu itt about this! !digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world
LouSpooner@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thanks!
Emmie@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Why do we use sound hmmm all over the world when thinking about something?
occhionaut@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe its for a similar reason to why cats purr; vibration make brain feel different in a way that fascilitates thought?
source im fuckin g insame
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 months ago
that’s the sound of our brains venting the thinking gas
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
)Sign language is even more universal (early hominids def would’ve had signs before proper spoken language).
If I hold out my arm, my palm towards you, you’d probably know what I mean.
Like this.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
That you’re a
copbusinessman?
flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Maybe it also has to do with the human anatomy? Like, when people are thinking they probably have their mouth closed and maybe even purse their lips. The sound you can make in this pose is really just hmm I guess.
OK yeah, the next question would then be why we use certain facial expressions…
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I watch as kitty run towards me, I say gogogo and kitty run faster
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I do this to cats I see and they say “No.” and sit down.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
My cat follows all my commands. I say “ignore me and do nothing else I say” and he ignores me and continues with his day.
No,but I use similar tempos to call him and he comes.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 3 months ago
So you’re telling me that when a cat chirps when it sees a bird through the window, it’s really saying “here, birdie birdie birdie” to it?
Icalasari@fedia.io 3 months ago
Nah, it's trying to imitate the bird and is going, "No cat here, only friend"
Cats do have limited mimicry abilities - It's probably why there are so many videos of cats "speaking" human words - adapting that mostly unused mimicry skill to get the human's attention with sounds it notices humans use to get the attention of other humans
smeg@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Cats do have limited mimicry abilities
Meows are supposedly mimicking human baby noises, definitely works to get our attention!
sodalite@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
pspsps