Do animals have language? - Michele Bishop 

but what if an alien looks at our language and says it is not a language because it is missing one of the features of their language?

I knew that crabs were shellfish but not selfish.

The art style of the video reminds me of Roald Dahl's books.

Damn self-centered crabs only talking about themselves.

Bees talk about food. Prairie Dogs talk about predators. Humans meme.

Do animals have accents?

Of course they have language! The dogs in my neighborhood be having a whole conversation with each other 😂

Imagine the only way human beings could communicate with each other was through dance. Life would immediately become 100 times more hilarious.

Who the hell dislikes knowledge?!

"after all, we are all animals" thank you, now i can show this to anyone who says "er no, we are humans not animals".

I used to have a parrot that would talk nice to lure me to his cage and then he'd charge at me when I got close. He knew what he was doing.

What If animals tried to talk to us, but they gave up thinking we're too stupid...

The radio show I heard about Prairie Dogs mentioned that, in tests, they could invent new words to describe something they had never seen before. That is rarely seen in animals. They lack displacement, but their current location and the current time are the most important things to them.

Hello chicken owner here, they have their own unique language where certain noises mean different things and they have a wide variety of them. My one girl does velociraptor noises(not sure what that one means yet) I have never heard any other chickens make a sound exactly like it, she often commonly purrs and has different forms of chatters or complaints. The calls for alarm sound alike but are slightly different; for instance if its a false alarm and she wants attention, just laid a egg, saw a aerial predator, or a terrestrial predator! When a chicken hears a egg song all the others will yell with that one chicken too in what I like to call a "Sympathy pain call" even roosters will do it. I believe its more to let them know they are there but its something that i still find interesting

My cat definitely talks some serious shit when he gets hungry or agitated!! The human standard is Not the Only way to measure things!! Even with our language, only around 7% of what we say is actually conveyed in the words we use. The majority of our communications are in things like tone and non-verbal clues... Even though my cat just meows and things like that, I can genuinely understand several different things he "says" based on context clues, tone, body language etc!! I can usually tell what he is communicating!! And he 100% definitely uses more verbal sounds (meows etc) than he would in Nature because he totally does understand that WE communicate verbally and he understands that's how he needs to try to communicate with me!! He does the best he can with the limitations he has but he understands how to convey what he wants from me!! They are so smart it's crazy....

So what is the next step in language development? What would a superior alien's language have that we don't?

Anyone else laughed when the chickens were talking and what they were talking about? 😂😂

It seems to me that we've created such strict stipulations for language so that no other creatures communications will fill all points and we remain unique. It seems to me language among non human animals would be any type of symbolic communication. If that's our definition then it seems language occurs in any animal that exists in a community. The more intelligent the animal the more complex the language

Dolphin: speaks animal jokes Animals around: *laughs in animal*

Thanks TED ED . Apart from the great knowledge . Can we please appreciate how great funny the animation is . Not only in this episode but also in all others .

I lived with a variety of animals in my life. I have no doubt: all of them communicate and some of them have language. We just don't understand. If you pay attention to tour cat or dog, you will notice the variations on the sounds, like phonemes. The reasons behind the "limited communication" of many observed animals is likely due to natural conditions (very hash). If I put YOU in a jungle situation from chieldhood let's see how your vocabulary would be...

Please give the animators of this video a hug and a huge thumbs up for me! Great job guys!

An interesting lesson on the vastness of language and communication.

Crows actually have different dialects for different regions. Calls from different states and even group's can differ. I crow call for fun, and if I am ever going to a new location I listen to recordings of group's from those areas and change my calls accordingly. It's very facinating. As they are extremely intelligent. I even feed my local crows and they come to a specific clicking noise I make, letting them know it's time to eat.. it's been years and I don't feed them regularly and they have taught their children my "feeding call" so they know where to get a free meal if they hear it, it's quite amazing they have passed it down and remembered it even though it isn't a constant feeding source.

Fantastic definition of human languages. I've learnt something today. Love ted-ed.

2:21 Dude caught me off guard - just the way he says " and if he has _a gun_ "

i love the narrator's voice. its so soft and calm

The guy/team who directed and created the animations in the video deserves a prize!!! Amazing!!

I don't see any mention of dogs in this presentation. What an oversight!

Wow, crabs are such narcissists

As you mentioned after all we are all animals. And this is why I am convinced that every animal can communicate with the same type of animal. As humans have their language in the same way dogs and elephants have their own "language" no matter if it is sign language, some voices, or even a dance.

I always love Avi Ofer's animations in these videos

So Is math a language? I feel like it follows all 4 of those criteria.

I think there's another feature of language that you forgot: double articulation - using meaningless sounds to create meaningful words.

Very informative and one of the finest animations I ever seen by now.

동물들이 언어를 갖고 있는지 알아보고 무었을 언어라고 정의하는지 배웠습니다. 또 언어와 관련된 4가지 특징 분리성, 문법, 생산성, 전위성에 대하여 배워서 무슨 동물들은 언어를 가지고 있다는 것을 알아냈습니다. 하지만 우리언어가 가장 좋은 것같습니다. 좋은 영상감사합니다.

crab and fish 0:10 Bee 0:25 praire dog 2:16 great ape 2:28 dophin 3:11

the answer is of course yes, Because humans are also animals -_-

I love this animation style. Beautiful video!

I love learning all these things about animals!!!

Technically, we can't say an infinite number of things with a finite number of letters and a finite amount of time. We could say a whole lot, though.

1:33 that was so adorable

This video made me feel special in this cruel world.

I'm not an animal dude, this video just show me that we are so different, we were created with another special way to live. that's why we have the capacity to think in our purpose of live.

dolphins be like - "asl?"

Thats how humans define their language. Of course nonhumans dont have same type of language.

I really enjoyed the show a lot, it was very entertaining and you helped me with my homework ...

Seriously, I keep clicking on to the next vid for the awesome animations. So funny!

we humans are so smart...im a very intelligent creation

Yes. Humans are animals. It’s just animals have a different way of doing it. I can’t believe we really think because they don’t talk like us they can’t communicate with others

This video was very useful. thanks for making it

I love the how you pictured the future of chickens!

The carb was like: Ah, man i thought i finally got a friend. in 4:38

I'm just wondering why y'all didn't talk about elephants.

that were some really nice animations/illustrations! Good job

Fantastic animation!

Animals: This is how we're gonna survive. Humans: Coffin Dance meme

I hear mice squeaking in the walls. I’m convinced they’re communicating with each other.

Adoo~orable animations!! The dancing Bee tho~♡!

Lovely animation!

1:23 I laughed way too hard at this 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Are we going to be chicken nuggets?" 😂

Loved the animation

Beautiful art, i love it!

In other words: "We can't really understand anything other than what we can conceptualize, so we assume they must not be doing so"... I can understand the "continuum" because if the Universe is telling us anything, its that everything grows and develops, but knowing this same factor and that these creatures have been existed side by side for our entire understanding... Why are you even asking this question? You, clearly, wouldn't be able to understand it anyway.

So their "language" is universal? Like when dolphins from pacific ocean met dolphins from indian ocean, they'll be able to communicate?

Way to go on the animation Avi Ofer!

The style of the animation in this video reminds me so much of the works of Quentin Blake. Really takes me back to my Roald Dahl days

didn't know taylor swift hunted prairie dogs

When you realise dolphins were using tinder before anyone😂

Thanks for video! I loved it!

Aw I love the art style !

The premise of this video is not correct. The narrative tells us that by human standards no other animal has a language. The problem is that we are superimposing our system of language on to another creature. this is the same as studying a tribe in the Rain Forest and deciding that they are not civilized because they do not have electricity. It may not be a great example, but hopefully you get the idea. when we meet a race of spacefaring creatures, they may think that we have no language, because we do not communicate in the same manner as they. How can we determine if other animals have a language without completely knowing their means of communication? It is like going to country that speaks another language and unless you are fluent in that country's language and trying to form a sentence that makes all grammatical sense to that person. Most of us can not do that. We need to memorize certain words and phrases and bring along our little cross language dictionary. Three examples of creatures that we know a lot about but can not communicate to them in their style, are the other primates, canines and felines. We can say the same thing with the cetaceans. We are like children learning our parents way of communicating and still making silly sounds and every once in a while making a noise or gesture that makes sense to our parents.

we are not all animals , but we all came from the same origin , thank you for the wonderful info❤

Everything on this channel is so interesting. 🤣💖 Just seeing the caption makes me want to click the video

I like his voice so much

Question: Do animals have language? Conclusion: We are all animals.

do animals talk about us, like we talk about them?

The drawings are so good!!

Incredible animation 😊😍😍😍😍😍

But honeybees can talk... haven't you seen the bee movie??

that dancing bee it looks like is HIGH ON HONEY!

Amazing video!

Thank you for including coco

the animation was so funny

But crows have ALL of the requirements and you didn’t show them

OMG IVE BEEN WONDERING THIS FOREVER THANKS

I laughed so hard at the bee illustrations! Love the viewers' crab comments too! LOL

All creatures have language. Our problem is to measure their ability according our rules, which is the wrong approach.

to think we fully understand the communicative means of other species is simply absurd

The animations are so cute!

Im gonna say it... I've enjoyed the animation more than the main topic... The topic is amazing thats why i clicked it.. But the animation was great

"We are all animals" then animals can understand english language.

When RU-vid titles end with a question mark, the answer is always "no".

The theory of language is made to understand each other then most of the organism or every organism are capable of using a language

Love the art

this is so wrong on so many levels..

I love this yt channel literally I'm getting educated and I'm also laughing at the same time

beautiful

Very good artwork!