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“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.