When they taught apes sign language, it got stuck on the fact that they couldn't form structured sentences (they just mimed jumbled strings of words). Perhaps whales will be different?

[–] standardUser@anarchist.nexus 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You trying to tell me this is not a correctly structured sentence from my boy Nim the chimp,

Give Me Orange Give Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give Me Eat Orange Give Me You

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I mean it seems he got the jist of the meaning

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Well, at least he tried

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would trust the science much more if they had a guy in another room doing LSD and talking to the whales telepathically

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

the handjobs would be quite the logistics challenge tho

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

.....okay, so here's how you open your mouth really wide...not like that!... I mean, really really wide. Then you close it and you get a meal. It only happens if you see our krill friends around. Some how the krill disappear after that. So you gotta keep finding krill friends if you want to eat good.