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<blockquote data-quote="Beleriphon" data-source="post: 7928989" data-attributes="member: 27847">There are going to be issues with studies and language when we involve a species that can't communicate with us using the same language. I think the better non-humans to explore as with language would be cetaceans personally, specifically dolphins. But that has a whole bunch of other issues as well.From what I've seen with cetacean studies they really do understand what we're saying. And generally have a higher level of intelligence compared to apes. I suspect brain mass to both mass is part of it. One example I've seen discussed you talk about one in a negative way and they respond to the person talking about them, typically by splashing them. It doesn't have to be a trainer, the dolphins understand that certain sounds specifically refer to them as an individual and learn to identify that sound. By all accounts dolphins produce thousands of different and discrete sounds that seem to have syntax.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Beleriphon, post: 7928989, member: 27847"] There are going to be issues with studies and language when we involve a species that can't communicate with us using the same language. I think the better non-humans to explore as with language would be cetaceans personally, specifically dolphins. But that has a whole bunch of other issues as well. From what I've seen with cetacean studies they really do understand what we're saying. And generally have a higher level of intelligence compared to apes. I suspect brain mass to both mass is part of it. One example I've seen discussed you talk about one in a negative way and they respond to the person talking about them, typically by splashing them. It doesn't have to be a trainer, the dolphins understand that certain sounds specifically refer to them as an individual and learn to identify that sound. By all accounts dolphins produce thousands of different and discrete sounds that seem to have syntax. [/QUOTE]

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