Does language make us uniquely human? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna and Jennifer Ackerman
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Language of Birds
Birds are using their own fuol of language, because it sactly sounds as if that's what you're describing. The ah japanese tit, for example, is one bird that has a kind of syntax - the order of its notes makes a difference. And there''s only really, only been a handful of species studied and so i'm just, i'm sort of set back on my heels by the possibility that there's just much more complexity going on than we imagine.
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