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Dolphins are mammals, and they are hardly "alien". I would rather look at cephalopods, who had a different evolutionary path (including reinvention of eye).
by stared 11y ago
Dolphins are mammals, and they are hardly "alien". I would rather look at cephalopods, who had a different evolutionary path (including reinvention of eye).
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- simonh 11y agoOk, but in order to analyse a form of communication, you have to have communication to analyse. Do Cephalopods meaningfully communicate? If not, your investigation isn't going to get very far.
- xemoka 11y agoThey totally do, cuttlefish and some squid have colouring that they can manipulate. They can flash colours across their body to communicate: http://acp.eugraph.com/cephal/ http://acp.eugraph.com/cephal/
- zachrose 11y agoThey also sense light through their skin: https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/may/20/octopus-skin-contains-light-sensors https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/may... DOI 10.1242/jeb.110908
- awinter-py 11y agocuttlefish are the coolest! Their mimicry skills stay sharp across generations because during breeding season, while the strong males are competing physically for access to females, the smaller males with better mimicry skills are mimicking females (!) and sneaking past the boxing ring for a quickie. The female cuttlefish can also store lots of sperm and decide later whose to use. Gross.
- vixen99 11y agoAs with the cuttlefish, so with the humans. http://www.londonwomensclinic.com/london/looking_for_donor_sperm http://www.londonwomensclinic.com/london/looking_for_donor_s... "The London Sperm Bank is the largest sperm bank in the UK with donors recruited from a variety of cultures, religions and sections of the community"
- monk_e_boy 11y agoThen there's the flamboyant cuttlefish, which doesn't try to blend in with sh*t. It just says, 'Why doesn't the world try to blend in with me?'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ