Animal Communication Studies Reveal Mindblowing Results

It's more than a little bizarre that some people still don't realize animals communicate, have feelings and suffer.

Elephants studying human evolution: We found that humans actually do greet each other. But if you think you can say hi to a human, you may find that difficult because they say hi by waving their front feet. Maybe that is why their front feet evolved so strangely - to communicate?

Hello wonderful person! This is the second video made entirely with my cheesy setup in a hotel, so apologies if the quality is not up to par If you missed my previous announcement, I lost a bunch of equipment to a flood and decided to just take a break with my son while waiting for replacement to arrive. There will be a few videos recorded with a new style and some older content on cool topics I never got to explore. I'll try to improve the quality a bit as I'm testing different lapel mics, but hopefully it won't be too bad Stay wonderful and more exciting videos soon!

Just imagine how messed up whale's culture is after the whaling era.

It's not a scientific study but an animal rescue group in Africa called Sheldrick Trust (I think I spelled it correctly) has been working with elephants helping them with injuries and raising orphaned elephants. They basically help get elephants able to return back to the wild on a nature reserve and they've reported some interesting behaviors. For example adult female elephants they've helped raise will often return with their new baby, apparently to show them off and/or introduce them. Even more interesting in my opinion is that injured wild elephants they haven't helped before somehow know to go to their facility and wait their for the humans to help them. Exactly how they learned where to go and how to ask for help seems unclear.

Bro's studio got flooded and he's still locked in and spoiling us 😭. Anton, don't worry about production quality and all that, you told us your situation and we're not sweating it. We're just glad you're okay frfr. 😊

Birds too, especially corvids, parrots and mynahs. Tons of complex chatter from them, with different sounds applying to different situations.

I've been listening to animals my whole life, and there's accents (blackbirds have different whistle-parts / words or phrases, based on location), and they and crows have a "whisper song", where practice new sounds very softly, while hidden in a bush. They have moods, and you can teach them sounds if they're in the right mood. And when they manage to get elements of it right, they get excited and happy about it. And if they try multiple times and fail, they get muttery and frustrated.

I recall the Gary Larson cartoon where a group of scientists are listening to dolphins and writing down the sounds. One has written 'aw blar es span yol' on the blackboard and says to the fellow next to him. ". "Matthews, we're getting another one of those strange " aw blar es span yol" sounds."

6:00 - This makes me wonder if music evolved before spoken language. What if that’s why it’s so deeply embedded in our psyches?