Whale Song Is Language

[gwand]

Hump Back whale songs are culturally transmitted and have similar structure to human language.

Humpback whale song shown to be structurally similar to human language

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in humpback whale song.

phys.org

 

[GaryE]

Forget aliens. Up until very recently, humans have been too self centered and stupid to look at intelligent life around us. When we saw it, we killed and ate it. Then we told ourselves how smart we were.

I would like to be alive in 100 years to see how these breakthroughs in understanding play out. We've only begun to catch on fairly recently.

 

[Back in the fold]

Are you telling us something new ? Captain Kirk figured that out a long time ago . Or was it a long time from now ? I get confused with time travel .

 

[gwand]

I do too. In fact I read your post yesterday!

 

[Back in the fold]

I do too. In fact I read your post yesterday!

Just don’t pick a fight with your Granddad when you meet up with him . You might really throw a monkey wrench into the works .

 

[GaryE]

Captain Kirk grew up on the same street we lived on when my daughter was born. The next block up. It was a quiet place, only livened up by the occasional bad actor.

 

[gwand]

Wow Leonard Cohen, William Shatner. Did you grow up in Hollywood?

 

[gwand]

Just don’t pick a fight with your Granddad when you meet up with him . You might really throw a monkey wrench into the works .

Oh gee wiz! I already slept with my grandmother!

 

[Back in the fold]

Oh gee wiz! I already slept with my grandmother!

Your goose is now well and truly cooked .

 

[GaryE]

Wow Leonard Cohen, William Shatner. Did you grow up in Hollywood?

Montreal. Leonard Cohen grew up about 30 minutes walk away up the mountain, in a mansion. His slumming poet's flat was in the area where I lived, just above Marie-Anne street. The place may have had tribbles in the kitchen around the pipes.

After Star Trek, for a while there Shatner looked like he could speak whale.