Haggunenons @lemmy.world Whereas most races are content to evolve slowly and carefully over thousands of generations, discarding a prehensile toe here, nervously hazarding another nostril there, the Haggunenons would have done for Charles Darwin what a squadron of Arcturan Stunt Apples would have done for Sir Isaac Newton.
MBARI’s acoustic technology has revealed that sperm whales are more common offshore of California than previously believed, and has provided new evidence for seasonal migrations in this top predator of the deep sea.
Tiny fish found to ‘check its body size in the mirror before getting into fights’
It looks like the glow of fireflies is not just beautiful, but terrifying.
Treehoppers communicate using plant vibrations. Cocroft’s research reveals their fascinating communication and ecological role.
Israeli researchers discover that marmosets use vocal tags to identify themselves
AI isn't just reshaping our digital world; it's also playing increasingly bold roles inside the ecosystems of our planet. Through innovations like acoustic monitoring,…
In recent years, various discussions have emerged about the potential effects of wind turbines on wildlife. As we strive to find sustainable energy sources,
By listening to the “heartbeat” or soundscape of soil, we can learn more about its condition. Think of poor soil as a lifeless party. Healthy soil is where you’ll find the good vibes and chatter.
Why Animals Talk is a highly stimulating and thought-provoking exercise in trying to understand animals on their terms and decentering the human experience.
What animal cooperation can teach us about our similarities and differences as species.
I think you've accurately assessed the situation.
Intensification of swine production can predispose pigs to chronic stress, with adverse effects on the neuroendocrine and immune systems that can lead to health problems, poor welfare, and reduced production performance. Consequently, there is an interest in developing tools to prevent or eliminate ...
Some amazing animals have astonished scientists by mimicking human speech—animals you would not typically suspect.
People are anticipating extrateresstrial life and have no idea how communication would unfold but recent studies have intriguing opinions
I loved Nova, but a couple of years ago, I found AIO, and it just blew nova out of the water for me. I look around to see if anything better comes along, but so far, I've not seen anything that gets close to AIO for me. It is so customizable, everything on one vertical scrollable screen, email, notifications, calendar, apps, weather. I absolutely love it!
THE cetaceans (placental aquatic mammals that include whales, dolphins, killer whales, porpoises, narwhals and belugas) represent a large group of marine mammals, whose in-depth study has allowed us to understand more about intraspecific communication methods, ways and strategies of action and relat...
TikTok star Apollo the talking parrot smashes record for most objects identified in three minutes. Find him in Guinness World Records 2025.
"Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough" is a documentary miniseries directed by Bridget Appleby, Gemma Brandt, and Rebecca Hart. It is hosted by David
In his new book, Arik Kershenbaum discusses communication and sociality, including the majestic howls of wolves, chatter of parrots, melodic clicks of dolphins, and grunts of chimpanzees.
Researchers discovered previously unknown structures in sperm whale communication similar to human language by analyzing whale sound recordings with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) repo...
I think most people would be really surprised by what has already been uncovered. For example, prairie dogs have had their communication decoded to the point where we can identify adjectives, nouns, and verbs. We can tell if a prairie dog is seeing a person in a red shirt or a person in a white shirt.
That's interesting, I was always taught that the hearing range of humans was 20hz-20kHz. Is it more of a body vibration or actually hearing at 10hz?
I don't think an audio file would do much good unless you are an elephant or a similarly sized(with. Few exceptions) animal. It's infrasonic, so the only way to hear it would be to shift it up to our hearing range which would be a different sound. Elephants do make sounds we can hear, of course, but a lot of their communication is super long distance, which is really only realisticly doable with extremely low sounds.
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Scientific paper with some visualizations:
My understanding is that 14% of the time that a chimp made a gesture to another chimp, there was a gesture used as a response. The result of this would be that there are not many long conversations happening with gestures, but like the paper said, they did see one that went on for 7 rounds.
Many animals do use call and response in communication, but long back and forth conversations are quite rare. Whales of some species have especially long back and forth communications. Sometimes, even for over an hour at a time, they will float near the surface and go back and forth, making sounds to each other. There was even a study earlier this year where humans had a 10+ minute back and forth with a humpback whale named "Twain". The conversation was essentially both sides going back and forth, claiming to be Twain.
Sperm whales also have long, distinct back and forth conversations. They have even been found to have certain types of calls that, when made by the dominant individual, indicate that the conversation is coming to an end. They have not decoded the meanings of their calls yet, but they have very complex structures that resemble human language in many ways. They have small units that are location/tribe dependent(think accents) that are combined into larger units that follow fairly predictable rules.
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They are already training for their takeover!
When It Comes to Waging War, Ants and Humans Have a Lot in Common
Maybe you would enjoy this radiolab podcast if you haven't heard it before.
We'll kick off the chase with Diana Deutsch, a professor specializing in the psychology of music, who could extract song out even the most monotonous of drones. (Think Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller. Bueller ... Bueller ...)
For those of us who have trouble staying in tune when we sing, Deutsch has some exciting news—the problem might not be your ears, but your language. She tells us about tone languages such as Mandarin and Vietnamese which rely on pitch to convey the meaning of a word. Turns out, speakers of tone languages are exponentially more inclined to have absolute—aka 'perfect'—pitch. And, nope, English isn't one of them.
If it requires a combination of an especially clever dog and a human that is willing to give an especially large amount of attention, then it may be tough to get enough controlled and studied instances of it happening in order for it to meet rigorous scientific standards. If this is the case, then I wonder if some sort of a setup that involves a private AI dog tutor that can give endless attention and is able to expertly watch and read the animal would be able to eventually help the dog make significant progress with a large enoughbl number of dogs to really have evidence one way or the other.
This looks neat! I don't remember it at all, Thanks!
Oh yeah! These things are great. We've had a few posts in here about them. I know some people debate whether or not the dogs really understand what they are doing. Sometimes people will say that they are just filming so much and sharing the most impressive videos. I don't know though, there are certainly some really convincing ones.
I wonder if anyone is working on any sort of AI tutor for dogs with this idea.