Understanding Realities Beyond Our Own Through The Hidden World Of Animal Senses – Daily Grail
If you could see the world through the eyes of a cat, how different would things seem? Why the world would seem far more alien, despite the façade of familiarity, considering the extraordinary capacities of animals. Entranced by this concept from Ed Yong, our pal Greg Taylor enumerates the bullet points of this maverick proposition and why we should collaborate with critters. Rhyming with Greg’s meditation is a piece from 2014 declaring Cats Have ‘Superpowerful’ Psychedelic Vision. But wait, there’s more with PubMed‘s study on the Behavioral Effects Of LSD In The Cat. Don’t leave us just yet, true believers, as Spencer Feingold lays out How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Us Decode Animal Languages. It’s a far cry from GPT-3 for whale song but it seems having another non-human mind puzzle out the communications from a different non-human mind may break down interspecies language barriers and it’s wild. Speaking of the unexpected, Dino Grandoni has a scoop about The Turtle Moms That ‘Talk’ To Their Eggs Before They Hatch and how the unhatchlings seem to chirp back. In a world full of birdsong, whalesong, chattering simians, and dancing bees, why should we be surprised that humble turtles talk. As for yet another recommended Sunday Read, check out Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Author Of The Acacia Seeds and its theme that the whole world has something to say if only humans listen. (CS)
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