A day or so ago I was watching a documentary which dealt in passing with Prairie Dogs. They said that prairie dogs have quite an extensive array of "barks" which spoke of danger, where the danger was (air or ground) and how dangerous the threat was.
This was quite a bit more information than I expected a prairie dog could convey and made me wonder where the line was between passing information and intelligent speech.
Does it come when two can disagree? When one party can express something which is not physical and have the other understand? The ability to create humor?
Just wondering especially what you S.F. author types thought about this.
This was quite a bit more information than I expected a prairie dog could convey and made me wonder where the line was between passing information and intelligent speech.
Does it come when two can disagree? When one party can express something which is not physical and have the other understand? The ability to create humor?
Just wondering especially what you S.F. author types thought about this.