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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 08:49:56 2022 No.14334401 View Reply Original Report

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Hypothetically, could we teach elephants to communicate language with their trunks like Coco the Gorilla, who is renouned for sign language.
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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 09:01:22 No.14334422 Report

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there's a great documentary about coco the gorilla that basically exposes her as a fraud perpetrated by her trainer

she would make up random signs and her trainer would "interpret" her signs into whatever she liked

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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 10:16:56 No.14334510 Report

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Source?

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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 10:21:32 No.14334525 Report

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i like the meme (based on scientific study sourced facts) about coco having a higher iq than african niggers. but this makes more sense desu

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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 10:22:33 No.14334531 Report

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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 12:44:51 No.14334816 Report

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Not sure if elephants are intelligent enough. There's a reason it was only ever just that one gorilla. You're have a better chance with dolphins or crows or something.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 16:47:06 No.14335365 Report

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>>14334401
it's not language you fucking troglodytes, it's just communication. language has very specific features like having grammar, recursion, allowing abstraction and construction of endless sentences, etc.
hunga dunga (trans. danger) isn't language

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Anonymous Sat 26 Mar 2022 02:38:35 No.14336677 Report

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The proper articulation of hands/trunk is the grammar. The language used, is one of sign "language."

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Anonymous Sat 26 Mar 2022 02:51:21 No.14336695 Report

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probably not, at least not at the level above how a dog responds and interacts to commands. It takes a HUGE fucking specialized brain just to figure out language. Like 99% of our intelligence comes from language alone. I doubt an elephant could master it at even a child's level. its too abstract

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