• na_th_an@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    A rattlesnake can certainly communicate using sound, but is that language? Bright colors can communicate ideas of “do not eat this” across species as well, but they wouldn’t fit my mental model of a language.

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      3 months ago

      what is language than making sounds to convey meaning and then decoding said sounds to understand their meaning

      human language is incredibly complex but a bee just buzzing a particular buzz that means “bear nearby” counts as a valid form of linguistic communication imo