• porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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    4 days ago

    It seems to be evidence of vowels and consonants, not evidence for complex grammar like the title might imply

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    When they taught apes sign language, it got stuck on the fact that they couldn’t form structured sentences (they just mimed jumbled strings of words). Perhaps whales will be different?

  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    I would trust the science much more if they had a guy in another room doing LSD and talking to the whales telepathically

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    …okay, so here’s how you open your mouth really wide…not like that!.. I mean, really really wide. Then you close it and you get a meal. It only happens if you see our krill friends around. Some how the krill disappear after that. So you gotta keep finding krill friends if you want to eat good.