As you can probably guess based on my profile picture, my favourite animal is
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the beluga whale.
And the gorilla, of course.
And you can’t forget the elephant.
And corvids.
And equids.
And dogs.
And cats.
And I think that’s all.
Also what’s your full name and address, asking for a friend
Whales, birds and dogs, specifically orcas, ravens and my own dog. It seems like the more we learn about them the smarter they actually are. Almost on par with human intelligence, but bounded to simplicism by their bodies and environment. I have no doubt that orcas, and maybe other whales, are selfaware, feel emotions, have relations with each other and so on. They also definitely use sound to communicate with each other. Each family/school has their own unique repatior (?) of sounds, often ranging up to hundreds if not 1000s. And names, specific sounds they have for each other. man do I love whales, all thanks to one band.
Many toothed whales seem self-aware (belugas, sperm whales, bottlenose dolphins, …). It’s interesting that they can learn “languages” from other species (e.g. a beluga that was moved to a group of dolphins could “speak” the dolphins’ “language” after a few months)
This is so cool. I really hope even with all the polluting we are doing, at least some of them can survive so we are able to study them more and maybe one day are able to speak with them. imagine human and whale cooperation.
Another issue is how to study their language without forcibly moving them. I suppose we’d need to attach transmitters that could send their “speech” to a receiver at a different (inaudible) frequency