I think we can very easily tell when they are communicating about mating or predation. We can read those signals in virtually any animal, there seem to be near-

I think we can very easily tell when they are communicating about mating or predation. We can read those signals in virtually any animal, there seem to be near-universal signals which we can easily talk about in research. Maybe when they are just having a chat, it might not look like anything to us, and we can only really tell what they're saying when they're "shouting". Or maybe we are missing lots of nuanced details being conveyed in the message. We think the tiger stripe aggressive pattern just means "back off", but maybe he's really "reading off" a detailed list of his feats of bravery to intimidate his opponent or spitting the cephalopod equivalent of a diss track!