Overcoming Bias in the Comparison of Human Language and Animal Communication
We have always been capable of speaking to, and with, animals. Our goal should not be to master their languages, but rather to better understand animals’ lives in context, and thereby to alter our relationships with them in ways which are mutually beneficial.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
We do communicate in various degrees and ways, with other animals. Such as through sign and body language with gorillas, chimps, dolphins, orangutangs and bonobos. We have techniques we use with dogs and cats. And parrots. We communicate with our fellow animals in more ways than we think. And animals watch us. Much more than we think.
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist • When Will We Talk to Other Animals?
I need a greater facility with multispecies languages. I am engaging in a conversation across cultural divides with other multitudes, whose languages and modes of perception we have only just begun to explore.