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Hoover (Seal)

• asxd 5y ago
  A video of hoover from 1984, a year before his death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfWbNTKndw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfWbNTKndw As noted in the youtube comments, a good sample of him talking can be found around the 14:30 mark.
  • neonate 5y ago
    Direct link for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfWbNTKndw#t=14m25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfWbNTKndw#t=14m25s
    • dredmorbius 5y ago
      With '&' rather than '#' timestamp delimiter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfWbNTKndw&t=14m25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfWbNTKndw&t=14m25s
• bvaldivielso 5y ago
  This is awesome. I wonder what several generations of selective breeding could do to the speech capabilities of different animal species. It would be very funny to see animals communicating to other animals using simple phrases like the ones Hoover could utter.
  • grp000 5y ago
    Pokemon!
  • uniqueid 5y ago
    "Hey guys... arrr arrr... remember to like and subscribe" and back under the waves again.
• bob229 5y ago
  Wikipedia=fake news
• anttipoi 5y ago
  Human hearing is very prone to priming: if you know what to expect, you can easily hear it even if the original sound is quite garbled. My favorite demo is by Michael Shermer (after 9 minutes): https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_why_people_believe_weird_things https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_why_people_believe...
• dmix 5y ago
  See Batyr (linked from the wiki) “Like all cases of talking animals, these claims are subject to the observer-expectancy effect.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batyr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batyr I’m curious how much this was studied scientifically.
• pvaldes 5y ago
  They are a lot like dogs, and pups can bite hard also if feel treatened.