Submitted 4 days ago by Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
It’s that same the other way round, dogs to an extent can understand, but a whale doesn’t know we call it a whale.
Not true. The “words” with which specific species call some others has been determined and can be observed, so “we would never know” is false.
Learn something every day and that.
My dog has specific vocalizations for known guests, unknown guests, and my spouse.
What other species think about me is none of my business.
We study animal communication a lot. We know when many different animals have a noise or communication for “human.” Bees have different dances to describe arbitrary locations, so they could also have a specific dance for “that jerk over there with the mesh helmet.”
remon@ani.social 4 days ago
But we do know!
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not just elephants, birds have special calls for humans and even give descriptions.
Corvids especially, piss off one and they’ll literally follow you around telling all the other birds you’re a dick.
Be cool. And they’ll tell the other birds you’re cool.
falseWhite@programming.dev 4 days ago
The sound from the article:
…cloudfront.net/Saburu_rumble_alarm.mp3
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Very Alien sounding. KInd of reminds me of the Heptapods from the movie Arrival (2016).