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We know that cotton top tamarins have at least 38 calls, the calls have a grammatical structure, the calls are learned, and comprehension comes before usage mastery. That pretty much qualifies as a language.
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I think if anyone's had any success decoding animal language, it's been in a personal setting, with a whole lot of listening, observing, and paying attention.
Each individual animal has its own personality and language which they'll share with you, just like when humans who share a lot of time together tend to form their own language variants.
One of the most helpful books on the subject I've read is "Wild Animals I Have Known" (1898)
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"Decoding the language of plants and flowers has been a decades-long challenge. But that changes today. Thanks to great advancements in artificial intelligence, Google Home is now able to understand tulips, allowing translation between 'Tulipish' and dozens of human languages."
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Are there even other "languages"? Or are there just signals like "land-predator!" etc?
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