[Newsbot]

Title: Dolphins recorded having a conversation 'just like two people' for first time
Category: Science
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2016-09-12 06:29:31

[shockedcanadian]

impressive

[DrCaleb]

shockedcanadian shockedcanadian:

impressive

Rather cool too. Now we have to acknowledge that we aren't the only intelligent genus on this rock.

[andyt]

It's been acknowledged for a long time as attribute after attribute deemed distinctly human has been stripped away.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

It's been acknowledged for a long time as attribute after attribute deemed distinctly human has been stripped away.

Usually those came from other animals interactions with humans. Birds having conversations with humans, apes learning sign language . . . this is the first time we've seen a conversation between two members of another species that we didn't have a hand in starting.

Very exciting!

[raydan]

I've seen 2 cats talking together.

[Public_Domain]

Seeing a crow drop rocks into a tube of water so that a pebble of food would rise closer to its beak was pretty much all it took for me to consider them brilliant.