communicating with animals : People have been trying to communicate with animals for many years. The first step was just the giving of commands, learning animals to do certain tasks when a human says or does something.
But since the rise of science there has been more interest in what animals in fact have to say. For instance, dolphins? are thought to tell loads of interesting stories through their binary code. This clicking is actually thought to be a language.
Furthermore, people have managed to learn apes sign language, through which they can communicate much better with them - even tell jokes!
A structured way to learn to communicate with animals, is speaking with them in their own language. For this you need to observe how animals communicate with each other mostly through body language. That is the difficult bit. Then this needs to be translated in ways for humans of doing/talking the same way. Whispering, this is often called. Horse-whisperers are more and more famous, but you also have your dog-whisperers and everything. I bet most pet-owners have a rudimentary grasp of their animal's language.
So, to communicate with animals doesn't mean to let animals speak like humans do, which was a popular approach in fairy tales and some science fiction, but which is physically and technologically not possible. Instead, the smart ones, we humans, need to take the effort and learn their language
But since the rise of science there has been more interest in what animals in fact have to say. For instance, dolphins? are thought to tell loads of interesting stories through their binary code. This clicking is actually thought to be a language.
Furthermore, people have managed to learn apes sign language, through which they can communicate much better with them - even tell jokes!
A structured way to learn to communicate with animals, is speaking with them in their own language. For this you need to observe how animals communicate with each other mostly through body language. That is the difficult bit. Then this needs to be translated in ways for humans of doing/talking the same way. Whispering, this is often called. Horse-whisperers are more and more famous, but you also have your dog-whisperers and everything. I bet most pet-owners have a rudimentary grasp of their animal's language.
So, to communicate with animals doesn't mean to let animals speak like humans do, which was a popular approach in fairy tales and some science fiction, but which is physically and technologically not possible. Instead, the smart ones, we humans, need to take the effort and learn their language
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