An Indonesian legend claims that monkeys can speak but they prefer to stay quiet. Do animals have languages that we don’t understand? Is it just a question of getting the right dictionary or is language the one thing that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom? Birds sing, lions roar and chimpanzees chatter but do these noises mean anything? This one-hour documentary takes viewers into the wild to listen to nature’s noisemakers and meet some of the scientists who spend their days trying to have conversations with animals. From parrots to killer whales we find out who is saying what to whom and explore whether there is such a thing as animal language.
Author(s) : Bertrand Loyer, Keebe Kennedy
Director(s) : Keebe Kennedy
Producer(s) : Saint Thomas Productions, France 5, France 3, Canal+, National Geographic Channels –
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That guy's music at 46:00 is so bad those poor Killer Whales are screaming in agony! "Please, for god's sake, stop!" 😛 Amazing documentary with a lot of eye opening facts!
Check out the trainer spinning and flipping a fish front of killer whale at 39.00 Mins. This guy is going to end up in the next black fish 2.
Amazing animals and insects
A squirrel once told me the meaning of life. Unfortunately I was tripping and forgot what he said.
I say let em all go home !! They dont need to understand our language nor do they care to learn it , they do it 4 reward and comfort.. But none deserve to be held in cages or pens !! You understand what im saying to you ? Let them all go free
21:37 when you tell a southerner you want a pop instead of soda.
Over 20years trying to convince yourself that parrots actually know what they're saying… She's delusional. Imitation is what they do best
I was a little disappointed to see whales in captivity being used, such a shameful practice.
You realize those animals are starved to get them to do tricks? That they are kept in small pens that would be like one of us living in a 4 man jacuzzi, not even enough room to turn around….one of humanity's greatest mistakes…such shameful practices
Lol
I feel for any animal in captivity.
Why do people have to be taught to swim? It seems so natural now, but I had to be taught. You’d think the dog-paddle would come as naturally to a child as it does to a puppy.
43,56 they don't need a complex language in the wild…bc their power of observation is great 🙄 does this person know that orca all teach language to their young, that they have different dialects, that when they were hunted they planned and executed ways to divert danger away from mothers with calves, that they travel together to certain location and cooperate to hunt, incl teaching their young (for instance) how to catch seals by beaching (wait for the next surge to exit) something only the bravest attempt etc. They're emphatic, very close emotionally within their pods/family, mourn their dead, amazing strategic hunters, planning, cooperating and he says they don't have a complex way of communicating 🤨🤔
The most primative form of language is emotional expression – the gasp, the scream, the aggressive shout etc: these I think all animals make, not just through sound but also through body language etc. And it would have probably arisen accidentally – we come to recognize, for example, that the gasp indicates surprise because we see it in ourselves and then in others. The gasp becomes the word for the emotion. Here, the sign doesn't have an arbitrary relationship with the meaning – in a sense, the sign is its meaning – the meaning and the sign are two parts of one indivisable whole to the one who expresses, and the one who hears only receives a part of the whole, but then makes the whole through memory.
But human language doesn't merely express emotionally – it signifies outwardly, points towards and represents external 'things', and therefore a sign is invented for the thing, and has an arbitrary relationship to that which it signifies. We see that some animals to a degree are able to learn this kind of language and to a limited degree, in some species, it has emerged (e.g. the different vocalizations for the different preditors).
However, because we human's preserve and accumulate language in human cultures, and even more so, because we now externalize our signs in written language, then language can become extensive, and extensively standardized, determined – ossified. It can also accumulate into an extensive system, and this system is learned, and by learning it we actually shape the neuronal circuitry of our brains: therefore perhaps language becomes a way of harmonizing and synchronizing the development of certain regions of the brain throughout maturation. But language in its ossified form is no longer living – it no longer expresses life, but in a sense circumscribes and constrains life. Instead of life creating and expressing itself in the form of language, language determines forms of life. Our language mediates, and therefore seperates – it even seperates us from ourselves.
Therefore with us, there is a tension and often conflict between life and language, the living and the dead. If we hadn't invented writing and it's like, there would be no such seperation. So language it seems exists widely within nature, but human language has now evolved externally, through social-historical accumulation and ossification.
The animals seem to have the scientists trained very well.
I think ppl forget each animal has its own but very similar ways of communicating n it doesnt have to do with just speakin they communicate with either pics or showin what theyve seen n how they would understand something but each animal is amazing regardless what man may think each animals/critters have feelings n emotions even if they arent exactly how we may perceive them
Watching this for PSYCHOLOGY 2H03
I noticed some episodes (not all) had animals with dye on them or videos of them putting dye on them to differentiate. One of the episodes had baboons with what looked exactly like tattooed numbers on them. Really? And whether it be darts or anesthesia they are put out so researchers can put GPS or cameras on them. Don't get me wrong I love the information and the entire series. But I've seen a million other documentaries where no GPS or cameras or dye is used. Some things that can only be caught on camera maybe should be left natures secrets. Why abuse the animals just so you can fulfill your desire to learn things that should just be left alone. The cages you put the chimps or gorillas in to force them to learn English, yeah sure it's cool to be able to communicate, but they ways you people go about your selfishness is disgusting.
Monkey speaking is left bullshit. These peoples trying to destroy USA