Can Animals Use Grammar: Introduction and Teaching Grammar to Animals

This multi-part series explores communication in non-human animals and, in particular, whether in some cases it exhibits aspects of grammar as in human language. The introduction surveys the topic and lays out the plans for further episodes.

Part 2 examines attempts to teach animals human languages, including some famous cases of fraud and self-deception over the years.

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Paper: OSF

Also, this project, using artificial intelligence to decode non-human communication. They believe that an understanding of non-human languages will transform our relationship with the rest of nature:
https://earthspecies.org

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When an AI enables animals to speak, the ADL will shut it down for hate speech.

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