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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Whistle Instead?

http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffic … .html]Move Over, R2D2!

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(Is that a budgie in the pic?)  Further comments declined; this is new to me.  Anyone?

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 29,433

Re: Whistle Instead?

I have heard of various experiments to talk to dolphins and of listening to the whale songs but this is a first I have heard of for birds.
Where is that universal translator of star trek when you need it..

Mars_B4_Moon

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Registered: 2006-03-23

Posts: 9,776

Re: Whistle Instead?

Maybe a topic worth bumping, AI seems to understand many human languages it will soon look at animal 'speech'

Para-language Xenolingustic non human animal machine language and Alien language

Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a35kp/ … e-language

Mars_B4_Moon

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Registered: 2006-03-23

Posts: 9,776

Re: Whistle Instead?

Pet Parrots Prefer Live Video-Calls Over Watching Pre-Recorded Videos

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-pet-parro … ideos.html