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Re:Saturn moon 'able to support life' by milquetoastaf on Thursday April 13, 2017 @09:04PM (#14112007)
Your answer is as simple as it is unsatisfactory and arbitrary. Humans have turing machines, sure. But we have yet to truly translate an animal language (though we do know they exist) so your point is rather moot.

My point isn't that humans aren't amazing, it's that we perhaps think too highly of ourselves in relation to our incredible relatives.

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Re:Saturn moon 'able to support life' by kpil on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:01AM (#14113371)
I don't think you can 'translate' animal languages.

There is nothing to translate, basically.

We can get a good grip of the meaning of their sounds though, if we spend some time listening, but there is no deeper meaning hidden that we can not access.

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Re:Saturn moon 'able to support life' by LoSboccacc on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:26AM (#14114307)
Experiment on dolphins showed they can explain each other what trick to perform. Can't find the exact experiment but trainer showed the trick to one dolphin and rewarded the pair only when the other dolphin perormed the same trick
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