• Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue A Lot
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[quote]A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they "speak" to one another as individuals (...) According to Ramin Skibba at Nature, neuroecologist Yossi Yovel and his colleagues recorded a group of 22 Egyptian fruit bats, Rousettus aegyptiacus, for 75 days. Using a modified machine learning algorithm originally designed for recognizing human voices, they fed 15,000 calls into the software. They then analyzed the corresponding video to see if they could match the calls to certain activities. They found that the bat noises are not just random, as previously thought, reports Skibba.[B] They were able to classify 60 percent of the calls into four categories. One of the call types indicates the bats are arguing about food. Another indicates a dispute about their positions within the sleeping cluster. A third call is reserved for males making unwanted mating advances and the fourth happens when a bat argues with another bat sitting too close.[/B] In fact, the bats make slightly different versions of the calls when speaking to different individuals within the group, similar to a human using a different tone of voice when talking to different people. Skibba points out that besides humans, only dolphins and a handful of other species are known to address individuals rather than making broad communication sounds. The research appears in the journal [url=http://www.nature.com/articles/srep39419]Scientific Reports[/url].[/quote] Source [url]http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-translate-bat-talk-and-they-argue-lot-180961564/[/url] More on the research itself [url]http://www.nature.com/articles/srep39419[/url] A bit old but I thought it was amusing nonetheless.
Turns out we're not too different after all.
[quote]A third call is reserved for males making unwanted mating advances[/quote] ... So basically 15% of all bat-speech is this? I think that's about the same for humans as well :v:
[quote]Skibba points out that besides humans, only dolphins and a handful of other species are known to address individuals rather than making broad communication sounds.[/quote] I find this snippet extremely fascinating. I've never even considered that animals might not be able to communicate on a one-to-one basis with each other.
I can't help but wonder what Batman would think of this
[QUOTE=KnightLight;51635857]I can't help but wonder what Batman would think of this[/QUOTE] "my parents are dead"
[quote] A third call is reserved for males making unwanted mating advances [/quote] Do they call this bat-calling?
"WHO THE FUCK SHAT ON THE FLOOR!" "EVERYONE DID, WE'RE FUCKING BATS" "OH GOD IT FUCKING SMELLS" now if only we could do this to dolphins, something tells me they're all otakus
[QUOTE=Sableye;51636202]"WHO THE FUCK SHAT ON THE FLOOR!" "EVERYONE DID, WE'RE FUCKING BATS" "OH GOD IT FUCKING SMELLS" now if only we could do this to dolphins, something tells me they're all otakus[/QUOTE] No, dolphins are actually p sadistic motherfuckers, apparently there's study which suggests they kill for fun/arbitrary reasons and rape each other.
[QUOTE=Sableye;51636202]"WHO THE FUCK SHAT ON THE FLOOR!" "EVERYONE DID, WE'RE FUCKING BATS" "OH GOD IT FUCKING SMELLS" now if only we could do this to dolphins, something tells me they're all otakus[/QUOTE] Dolphins have sex though
[QUOTE=GordonZombie;51636289]No, dolphins are actually p sadistic motherfuckers, apparently there's study which suggests they kill for fun/arbitrary reasons and rape each other.[/QUOTE] What's always fascinated me (in a morbid way) is that our closest cousins, chimpanzees, also kill for fun and rape each other. I wonder what it is that compels animals to do stuff like this.
[QUOTE=GordonZombie;51636289]No, dolphins are actually p sadistic motherfuckers, apparently there's study which suggests they kill for fun/arbitrary reasons and rape each other.[/QUOTE] Not just rape. Groups of juvenile male dolphins will box a female dolphin in and deny her food until she's too weak to resist, then they'll gangrape her.
[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;51636318]Not just rape. Groups of juvenile male dolphins will box a female dolphin in and deny her food until she's too weak to resist, then they'll gangrape her.[/QUOTE] I suddenly don't like dolphins.
[QUOTE=Hogie bear;51636327]I suddenly don't like dolphins.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GaNMeWbrXg"]NSFW[/URL]
[QUOTE=AntonioR;51636541][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GaNMeWbrXg"]NSFW[/URL][/QUOTE] Dolphins are horny little buggers
[QUOTE=Hogie bear;51636327]I suddenly don't like dolphins.[/QUOTE] They'll sometimes lure things into caves to gangrape them too, like scuba divers and fish.
[QUOTE=Sableye;51636202]"WHO THE FUCK SHAT ON THE FLOOR!" "EVERYONE DID, WE'RE FUCKING BATS" "OH GOD IT FUCKING SMELLS" now if only we could do this to dolphins, something tells me they're all otakus[/QUOTE] Can confirm
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;51635810]I find this snippet extremely fascinating. I've never even considered that animals might not be able to communicate on a one-to-one basis with each other.[/QUOTE] I think there is a lot more out there than we realize currently, but it is true that the vast majority of animals don't actually communicate to any other member specifically. Only more social species have it as a common trait. It's especially common in birds. [editline]7th January 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=AaronM202;51636708]They'll sometimes lure things into caves to gangrape them too, like scuba divers and fish.[/QUOTE] I also remember a time when there was this dolphin that tried to fuck people near a shore, and they surmised that the dolphin was molested by a person in the past. I don't think people are very different from these creatures :v: Honestly, I wouldn't doubt for a second that if dolphins ever created a society and could communicate with people properly, we'd have gigantic interspecies orgies. For fuck's sake, there are people out there who fuck [i]goats[/i], and those things are nasty lookin'.
Fish humanoids? Fuck yeah :rock:
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