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I was on a zoom call with a colleague and we were both WFH. His dog started barking, which made my dog start barking as well. Not sure if they were conveying a

I was on a zoom call with a colleague and we were both WFH. His dog started barking, which made my dog start barking as well. Not sure if they were conveying any information to each other, but they seemed to enjoy it.

andrewstuart 1y ago
“I’m here!” “I’m over here!”
- mdp2021 1y ago
  There was a gag from Gary Larson depicting the inventor of dog-to-human language translator: he walked on a street where dogs were all shouting, "Hey! Hey!". ...Found it: https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Far-Side-Dog-Translator.jpg https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/...
  - dmurray 1y ago
    And an SMBC comic, perhaps inspired by Larson, where all the animals are shouting "Do me! Do me!" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/springtime https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/springtime
  - gs17 1y ago
    It works for a lot of animals, although sometimes it's "HEY!", sometimes it's "heyyyy".
- wpietri 1y ago
  I was reading some scholarly work on raven calls. It got into a ton of detail, but it opened with the notion that the fundamental message of every call is "here I am". There were often other messages on top of that (e.g., "here I am near a hawk", "here I am near food", etc), but somehow I'd never realized that was always the base.
  - jbattle 1y ago
    Not being snarky - most social media content is also essentially someone saying “here I am!” (Near a beach, near food). Maybe ravens share some existential angst with humans. Or maybe they are just more physically spread out and need to keep in touch.