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Cetacean communication obeys Zipf's law: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11797547/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11797547/ As does house fi
by timschmidt 1y ago
Cetacean communication obeys Zipf's law: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11797547/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11797547/
As does house finches: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2024.0250 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.202...
Sperm whale codas exhibit contextual and combinatorial structure: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8
Ants have developed symbolic language: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10093743/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10093743/
Everywhere we look close enough, we find life doing smart things.
- andsoitis 1y agoThose are interesting examples. Do you know of a species where ALL of those properties (and more) exist?
- timschmidt 1y agoLikely all of the ones named, and more. These are just a sampling of papers and not at all exhaustive.