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Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

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?

[-] standardUser@anarchist.nexus 10 points 2 days ago

You trying to tell me this is not a correctly structured sentence from my boy Nim the chimp,

Give Me Orange Give Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give Me Eat Orange Give Me You

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Well, at least he tried

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I mean it seems he got the jist of the meaning

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