Right! That's as much as we can manage with chimpanzees - our immediate relatives, who we have physical contact with. Humans scarcely care how other earth-bou

Right! That's as much as we can manage with chimpanzees - our immediate relatives, who we have physical contact with. Humans scarcely care how other earth-bound species communicate enough to identify it as communication - how do insects and plants and fungi communicate? What information is whale song (mammal) transmitting? Is the 52 Hz whale communicating, or not? Alien communication will look far more different even than that.