https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/...ZRlqK4-V6U5PhSxMT7nGpem6BLfsXf&smid=url-share
I'm gifting a very long article that can also be listened to if you click on the link. It's about how animals communicate, indicating that language was developed long before humans began to communicate. Again, we're not as smart or special as a lot of us think. I hope some of you will read or listen to this interesting article.
Can a mouse learn a new song?
Such a question might seem whimsical. Though humans have lived alongside mice for at least 15,000 years, few of us have ever heard mice sing, because they do so in frequencies beyond the range detectable by human hearing. As pups, their high-pitched songs alert their mothers to their whereabouts; as adults, they sing in ultrasound to woo one another. For decades, researchers considered mouse songs instinctual, the fixed tunes of a windup music box, rather than the mutable expressions of individual minds.
I'm gifting a very long article that can also be listened to if you click on the link. It's about how animals communicate, indicating that language was developed long before humans began to communicate. Again, we're not as smart or special as a lot of us think. I hope some of you will read or listen to this interesting article.
