Humans May Be Shockingly Close to Decoding the Language of Animals

This is a neat shower thought...

But I don't think it's worth writing an article until you have some results.

I think people can already understamd animals we are regularly exposed to quite well. Imagine you are in a park and see a dog running directly toward you. You know almost instantly whether it wants to play or is being aggressive. Same thing with cats and birds among people who have been around them.

The body language of play seems pretty universal, and mammals have a propensity for snuggling together to conserve warmth that probably relates to other social behaviors like grooming. If you put two young mammals of different species together, they generally play and cuddle with each other, so there is already alot of precedent for interspecies communication, and what seems to be an inherant drive to communicate.

They used to believe there was a Language of Humans. If you did not teach any language to a baby, somehow he would start talking in an ancient old language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation_experimen...

Now it is the same but with animals.

Article seems very light on content, but is a great topic for a thread.

I suppose if one has a Babel fish in one’s ear one would understand everything, alas they don’t fit in my ear:

https://youtu.be/5HLy27bK-wU

Peter Davidson going from playing a vet, to playing a pig, before becoming the fifth Dr Who.

Can we start with human babies first?