[HN Gopher] Crows' ability to discriminate between languages
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       Crows' ability to discriminate between languages
        
       Author : polm23
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2020-06-22 10:57 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (corvidresearch.blog)
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       | acqq wrote:
       | The Onion's take on crows research:
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       | https://www.theonion.com/researchers-find-crows-smart-enough...
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       | "Researchers Find Crows Smart Enough Not To Let On How Smart They
       | Really Are"
        
       | zwieback wrote:
       | I read "Hollow Kingdom" a little while back, pretty good novel
       | about how a crow that learned human language saves the world from
       | a zombie invasion.
        
       | greeneggs wrote:
       | Looking at the results, there doesn't seem to be a large
       | difference between the two languages. And it is a very small
       | sample size. I am not sure how to interpret it.
       | 
       | Here is a link to the paper:
       | https://brussels.evolang.org/proceedings/paper.html?nr=10
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       | > Language discrimination has previously been found in human
       | infants, cotton-top tamarin monkeys, rats, and java sparrows.
       | This ability might also be relevant for the crow, a social
       | passerine with extensive auditory perceptual skills living in
       | close contact with humans...
        
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