Animals & human language Animals and human language. | Page 2

There are a lot of stories about creatures that can talk. We usually
assume that they are fantasy or fiction or that they involve birds
or animals simply imitating something they have heard humans
say (as Terrence Deacon discovered was the case with the loud
seal in Boston Aquarium). Yet we think that creatures are capable
of communicating, certainly with other members of their own 
species.