"How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong
Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?"
they sound to me as if they are chatting with each other constantly, exchanging information and whatever.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/how-scientists-started-to-decode-birdsong
@holon42 Meh, everything talks. What makes us human is opposable thumbs and higher math skills... LOL
You know we're on the lower rung for languages because we expect our dogs to understand us but we rarely understand them. And forget understanding cats... ;)
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i agree. we're just so pumped with hubris, we're blind to whatever threatens our fragile egos.
@holon42 Yup!