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  • JPjplebreton@mastodon.social
    Oct 2, 2026, 8:56 PM

    @mcc also there are other birds who are astonishingly good mimics who we've determined conclusively have way less going on cognitively than eg african gray parrots, they're just playing back little .flac files for us*, but it still gets us because language is so central to our perceptions of "intelligence".
    * not to say it doesn't "mean something" to them!

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  • CheesenessCheeseness@mastodon.social
    Oct 2, 2026, 10:22 PM

    @jplebreton @mcc Gratuitous shout-out to the lyrebird. What a champ. Absolutely impressive (while utterly depressing to think about the implications of noise pollution and habitat loss that result in the stuff people seem to get most excited about)

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