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Do Animals Talk?
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Hi Avet. 
Off topic but I had to make another quick post...the last number was scaring me!
Off topic but I had to make another quick post...the last number was scaring me!
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Well, some animals do have basic forms of language. For example, some primates make different sounds to raise alerts that predators are close by, or that a rival primate group is moving into their territory, etc. Wolves and dogs have different barks to express fear, dominance, warnings that a rival pack is nearby, etc. They also communicate things via different body signals.
Dolphins have a sophisticated form of language, and can coordinate ambushes on fish using their highly advanced system of sounds that tell other dolphins what they are doing and what the others should be doing. Recent studies have gone as far as suggesting that Dolphins have one of the most advance languages in the animal kingdom, and that different pods have different languages (just as different countries speak different languages.) Dolphins that join a different pod seem to have a hard time understanding the dolphins in the new group, and must learn the new pod's language just as humans who move to another country have to learn the language there.
Certainly nothing that can compare with our highly advanced human languages, but yes, a lot of animals do have sophisticated forms of communication. They don't just make sounds to make sounds, it all means something.
Dolphins have a sophisticated form of language, and can coordinate ambushes on fish using their highly advanced system of sounds that tell other dolphins what they are doing and what the others should be doing. Recent studies have gone as far as suggesting that Dolphins have one of the most advance languages in the animal kingdom, and that different pods have different languages (just as different countries speak different languages.) Dolphins that join a different pod seem to have a hard time understanding the dolphins in the new group, and must learn the new pod's language just as humans who move to another country have to learn the language there.
Certainly nothing that can compare with our highly advanced human languages, but yes, a lot of animals do have sophisticated forms of communication. They don't just make sounds to make sounds, it all means something.
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It all comes down to this, we once thought that humans were special because of some creator, so naturally we assumed that all animals are stupid and act on raw instinct. The more we study animals, the more we are surprised by just how intelligent some animals are. One more example, many animals who live in herds are so intelligent that they can remember different faces and recognize their "buddies" from the rest of the herd, even after long periods without seeing them. Other animals such as elephants have well developed long term memories that rival the memories of some humans (I know a few humans with rather short term memory.) 
And yes, many animals do express a lot of feelings that were once thought to be exclusively human traits.
And yes, many animals do express a lot of feelings that were once thought to be exclusively human traits.
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Hi Avet.
-- I hear ya, buddy!
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Yes.
This was kind of a tongue-in-cheek thread anyway; and I wanted to see where it went.
Thank you --
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Yes.
This was kind of a tongue-in-cheek thread anyway; and I wanted to see where it went.
Thank you --
Or maybe you were hoping that non-believers would be so stumped that they would have to admit there is a God because humans have language when animals don't (which they do).
I'm unto you AV. You like to ask a lot of questions, get us to provide long detailed answers, and then proceed to ignore us or twist things in the hope that we will get so frustrated that we will abandon the forum, or cave in.
Either that or I need to put this bottle of whiskey down. That stuff may be making me a little too paranoid tonight
The least you could do is give me some rep for bothering to answer your tongue-in-cheek question.
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-- Man! I'm losing my touch!Am I so obvious now, that a newbie can spot me???
(No offense, of course.)
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Listen, I firmly believe my cat talks - she has an above level intelligence and she doesn't meow, I swear its words, although I can't understand what she's saying. My husband says she does it too - its wild to hear. And she seems to understand English too - and no I'm not some crazy cat lady! LOL But you'd really have to see her and interact with her to understand. I've had cats and dogs before, but this one is a weird one - that gets her point across to you. I just think some animals are way more intelligent than others and some develop more human like mannerisms than others, including a more developed language. Oh well, I can't explain it without sounding off my rocker. nm
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Our cat responds to different sounds I make.
I can make a sound that brings him running, but not his sister.
"Git!" sends his sister running away, but he won't budge an inch.
They communicate to us in body language as well.
The vertical tail alignment usually means "hello"; ears pinned back is anger; tail swinging from side to side is usually playful; and I just noticed recently that if they want to go outside, but pause outside the door with their tail in the doorway (like the proverbial salesman), they haven't decided if they really want to go out or not.
If you push them out, then shut the door, they usually want right back in in a minute or two.
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I can up that.
My dog is multilingual. He understands 7 different commands in 3 languages, English, Spanish and Italian. I don't even give him any hand signals to guide him, I simply tell him the command in either of the three languages while standing perfectly still and he knows what to do.
He got the English and Spanish from me at an early age, and a few years back an Italian buddy trained him to also recognize the commands in Italian.
My dog is multilingual. He understands 7 different commands in 3 languages, English, Spanish and Italian. I don't even give him any hand signals to guide him, I simply tell him the command in either of the three languages while standing perfectly still and he knows what to do.
He got the English and Spanish from me at an early age, and a few years back an Italian buddy trained him to also recognize the commands in Italian.
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Are you sure he's not responding to voice tones?
I can say GIT! to one of our cats, and she goes running off; but I can also say HIT THE ROAD! and she will do the same thing.
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No, I say them to him in a monotone voice and he still understands. That's only 21 words for a total of 7 commands, so is not beyond the capability of a clever dog.
On the other hand, my previous dog was as dumb as a box of rocks, but I still loved him. His brain only knew three things, eat, sleep and poop. I could never get him to learn much of anything.
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