Doug Adams had a story about that, coincidentally involving birds: Aurthur Dent taught himself the language of birds. It turned out that birds are mostly chatte

Doug Adams had a story about that, coincidentally involving birds: Aurthur Dent taught himself the language of birds. It turned out that birds are mostly chattering about the wind, and seeds, and who got whose feathers ruffled, etc. Humans are crashingly boring. We fart, we scratch, we worry about our hair and our petty insecurities.