Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

Google DeepMind's DolphinGemma is analyzing dolphin sounds to understand their communication patterns.US Navy photo by Fireman Rheannon Ayalacortez/Released Researchers are using large language models ...

"Compositionality, in a nutshell: It's the fact that we can combine meaningful units into larger structures whose meaning is derived from the meaning of the units," Mélissa Berthet, a researcher in ...

Do other animals have language? Dolphins do — and we may just be able to understand it soon. Here's how researchers are working to translate dolphin sounds.

At the turn of the 20th century, a famous horse named Clever Hans toured Germany. The horse stunned crowds as his trainer demonstrated the animal's alleged ability to understand German, tell time and ...

Communication between species has a long and wishful history, beginning with myths, legends, and stories like those of King Solomon and Doctor Dolittle. In the past century, that history has blossomed ...

A bear leans in the window of the Jeep Grand Cherokee while a woman holding a microphone asks the bear a question. The ...

Annie Peters, president and CEO of Pet Partners—a Bellevue, Wash.-based national therapy animal organization focusing on improving human health and well-being through the human-animal bond—traces her ...

How can humans and animals be friends? This is what writer Maren Damman concerns herself with. As a biologist, wildlife ...

Researchers are using large language models to decode the communication patterns of animals. Google DeepMind is building DolphinGemma, which studies dolphin sounds to understand them. The Earth ...