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This Elephant Speaks Korean

by Alison Kroulek November 2, 2012 Nature
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There’s no doubt that elephants are intelligent. Aristotle once called them “”The animal which surpasses all others in wit and mind.” They have the largest brains of any land mammal, and have exhibited such human-like behaviors as holding funerals for their dead, painting, playing music and counting. They’ve even outsmarted human researchers in some intelligence [...]

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Bonobos, Technology and Language

by Alison Kroulek July 4, 2012 Nature
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When historians look back on this time period, one of the themes that will undoubtedly define the past two decades is the way technology allowed us to break through barriers like language and distance and allow people from around the world to communicate with each other. Some of the same technologies are also making it [...]

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Wild Australian Parrots Learn to Squawk in English

Wild Australian Parrots Learn to Squawk in English

by Richard Brooks September 26, 2011 Nature

Walking around a park in Australia these days, you might be forgiven for thinking that you’ve stumbled into a Disney movie, as wild birds fly down and greet you with a perfectly intelligible “Hello.” Don’t worry…you haven’t fallen down the rabbit hole! There’s actually a perfectly reasonable explanation. It seems that escaped pet parrots have [...]

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Translating Honeybees

by Richard Kazandjian September 15, 2011 Nature

By now, many scientists are willing to accept that intelligent animals like dolphins may have languages of their own. But what about honeybees? They couldn’t possibly have their own language, could they? After all, they’re just bugs!  Not so fast, say scientists from the University of Dundee in Scotland. They believe that honeybees may, in [...]

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Whales Have Dialects, Too

by Caroline Mikolajczyk May 17, 2011 Nature

It’s not just Brits and Americans who are “divided by a common language.” Scientists have learned that whales, too, have accents and dialects.

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Coming Soon…Dolphin Translation?

by Caroline Mikolajczyk May 16, 2011 Nature

We know that dolphins have extremely advanced communication skills. In captivity, for example, they’ve been able to learn to respond to a large number of verbal commands, and even seem to understand syntax, or how word order determines meaning.

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