[HN Gopher] Crows' ability to discriminate between languages ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (TXT) w3m dump (corvidresearch.blog) | acqq wrote: | The Onion's take on crows research: | | https://www.theonion.com/researchers-find-crows-smart-enough... | | "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 | | > 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... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-06-22 23:00 UTC)