can animals talk

[Lulu]

My parrot will tell the dogs to sit, and they do
she flings food, they know this and they'll wait patiently for it
not that she necessarily flings it for them, they're just bigtime messy eaters

I have 3 different species, all have some degree of speech and interact
with each other using words, murmerings, screams and mutual preening.
I only have a strong bond with one, but she can pick up on my humour
in an instant and will react accordingly. If I'm stressed she's been known
to attack my husband, he has scars on his head to prove it. But if she thinks
I'm being threatened, she'll bite me - not in a spiteful way, but a quick nip
that's her telling me to flee like she would a mate in the wild. She learns new
words all the time, jingles off the radio she picks up really quickly - we had
months of bada ba ba baaaaa I'm lovin it - that kinda stuff gets old real quick ~lol~

Dogs I've always had, two permanent residents and the fosters that come
and go. They tell you what they want so easily I can't understand how some
are so misjudged. In the fostering I've seen some of the cruellest things and
it never ceases to amaze me.

Anyway, animals - love them

[Ausman]

also our cats have a distinctive meow for when they run out of food. They meow till you pour more food into there bowl.

[NextGen]

also our cats have a distinctive meow for when they run out of food. They meow till you pour more food into there bowl.

bitch bitch is all cheeto does when his dish is getting empty. He's saying and my girl and I figured it out "feed me fuckers".

[Hektik]

i dunno, im more curious as to if they talk to eachother

same. with fish too. I wonder if fish communicate with each other. All animals in like some supersonic way that only they hear and shit. Im stoned

[daZenfmeister]

i think they do its just more of in pitch like when we say some like GREAT! you can say it sarcasticly and you can say it in a depressed way and an excited way etc so i think thats how animals understand for example:

if you call you dog loudly HERE BOY! GOOD DOG C'MERE!!!! He'll come bounding to you but if your talking loudly in an angry manner NO!! BAD DOG!!! he'll slink awawy.


im sowwy if that made no sense but im too stoned to think it matters.

[Ausman]

also in sylabils (however you spell it) like Che-toe you could call him stu-pid and he would probaly resond i know my dog does.

[NoosaHeads]

My parrot will tell the dogs to sit, and they do
she flings food, they know this and they'll wait patiently for it
not that she necessarily flings it for them, they're just bigtime messy eaters

I have 3 different species, all have some degree of speech and interact
with each other using words, murmerings, screams and mutual preening.
I only have a strong bond with one, but she can pick up on my humour
in an instant and will react accordingly. If I'm stressed she's been known
to attack my husband, he has scars on his head to prove it. But if she thinks
I'm being threatened, she'll bite me - not in a spiteful way, but a quick nip
that's her telling me to flee like she would a mate in the wild. She learns new
words all the time, jingles off the radio she picks up really quickly - we had
months of bada ba ba baaaaa I'm lovin it - that kinda stuff gets old real quick ~lol~

Dogs I've always had, two permanent residents and the fosters that come
and go. They tell you what they want so easily I can't understand how some
are so misjudged. In the fostering I've seen some of the cruellest things and
it never ceases to amaze me.

Anyway, animals - love them

Thats Cool Lulu...

When I was a Kid My folks had a sulpher crested cockatoo he was really well trained and only had a pearch no cage.
he didnt even have his wings Clipped and we'd let him out to play in the back yard all day.
he used to hide around one corner of the house and start calling out.
"here kitty kitty Heeere kitty kitty"
the cat would come around the corner thinking it was getting food and the cocky would attack the cat Hard core...

The thing even had me confused as a kid He would hear my mum calling out my name in the neighbourhood to come home.
and the Bastard cocky would mimic her
so id come home thinking it was mum and it was the bloody bird..

he also thought he was a person so yeah they can talk if you get the right animal.....

[rastabill89]

their was a dog on "ripleys belive it or not" that could say "hello"

[ermitonto]

Animals can communicate to each other to some degree in that they have different gestures and sounds which communicate specific ideas ("predators are coming", "I want some sex", and the like) but they don't appear to have language in the same way humans do, where we can communicate not only about basic things about the current situation, we can talk about the past or the future or abstract ideas, or pretty much any thought we can conceive. There has been some reported success teaching primates to use sign language but a lot of scientists remain skeptical about whether they're really understanding the meaning behind the signs they're using.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3548246.stm

[Lulu]

Thats Cool Lulu...

When I was a Kid My folks had a sulpher crested cockatoo he was really well trained and only had a pearch no cage.
he didnt even have his wings Clipped and we'd let him out to play in the back yard all day.
he used to hide around one corner of the house and start calling out.
"here kitty kitty Heeere kitty kitty"
the cat would come around the corner thinking it was getting food and the cocky would attack the cat Hard core...

The thing even had me confused as a kid He would hear my mum calling out my name in the neighbourhood to come home.
and the Bastard cocky would mimic her
so id come home thinking it was mum and it was the bloody bird..

he also thought he was a person so yeah they can talk if you get the right animal.....

aww sweet noosa
http://www.alexfoundation.org/alextheparrot.mov