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The Importance of Language in Animals

The ability to make plans that we can collaborate verbally with each other has a lot to do with why we're at the top of the food chain. It makes me wonder if other animals were smarter, could they make those sounds? Would they have the physical ability to make a language if they had the brains to do it? Yeah, great question. What science tells us is that in fact we are special. So the answer is no, they really wouldn't be able to - even if they had mental sort of imagery of language in their minds.

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