Hacker News with Generative AI: Animal Communication

Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen (arstechnica.com)
Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles. Now, a team of Swiss scientists led by Melissa Berthet, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Zurich, discovered bonobos can combine these basic sounds into larger semantic structures.
Animal Communication, Linguistics, Primates, Science, Research
45 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 10 comments
Why do some birds mimic the sounds of other species? (allaboutbirds.org)
Although some birds learn their species’ song during their first year of life, others, including mockingbirds, continue adding to their repertoire as they grow older.
Bird Behavior, Animal Communication, Mimicry
30 points by jpoersc 24 days ago | 22 comments
Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds (theconversation.com)
Whalesong, Animal Communication, Linguistics, Science, Research
140 points by sohkamyung 56 days ago | 22 comments
Stares and ear-twitches: The linguist learning to speak the language of cows (bbc.com)
Dutch linguist Leonie Cornips has become fascinated with how cows communicate. But can this really be called 'language'?
Animal Communication, Linguistics, Science
4 points by tintinnabula 57 days ago | 0 comments
Dogs use two-word button combos to communicate (sciencedaily.com)
A new study from UC San Diego's Comparative Cognition Lab shows that dogs trained to use soundboards to "talk" are capable of making two-word button combinations that go beyond random behavior or simple imitation of their owners.
Animal Communication, Animal Intelligence, Science, Research
4 points by Terretta 91 days ago | 0 comments
Old videos of chimpanzees suggest they are capable of speech (phys.org)
Animal Communication, Chimpanzees, Science
23 points by geox 249 days ago | 4 comments
African savannah elephants call one another by 'name' (nature.com)
Animal Communication, Elephants, Zoology, Science
15 points by wjb3 297 days ago | 0 comments
African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls (nature.com)
Animal Communication, Elephants, Research, Nature, Science
26 points by geox 298 days ago | 0 comments
Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper [video] (youtube.com)
Rabbit Behavior, Video, Humor, Animal Communication
30 points by georgehill 315 days ago | 4 comments
Exploring the mysterious alphabet of sperm whales (news.mit.edu)
Sperm Whales, Marine Biology, Animal Communication
10 points by areoform 331 days ago | 0 comments