• porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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    8 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?

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