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When my ginger rescue cat Marmalade crawls onto my lap and meows at me, I often find myself really wanting to know what’s going on in his head.
It may sound like a story, but communication with animals may be more familiar than we think. Earlier this year, researchers revealed they had discovered that eastern Caribbean sperm whales use a phonetic alphabet consisting of 143 combinations of click sounds. They describe this as the closest system to human language ever discovered and hope that one day we will be able to communicate with these complex, social creatures.
But that…
Source: www.newscientist.com
