• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    We kind of can…

    Birds are manipulative dicks and constantly lie about shit, but you can verbally communicate with more than a few species in your native human language.

    They won’t have a perfect grasp of what’s going on, but they understand a lot.

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      Corvids are the best ones to do this with, especially crows and ravens. Crows and ravens are capable of mimicry, are fairly common, and have their own language complex enough to pass down accurate information through generations

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      No animal understands the concept of a question not even great ape relatives to us