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⌈ Secret Post #3425 ⌋

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[Final Fantasy VII/Super Smash Bros]

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[The Girls Next Door, Bridget Marquardt, Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson]

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[Pokémon Sun and Moon]

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[Love and Lies]

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[Aoishiro]

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[The Hunger Games]

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09. [SPOILERS for Houdini and Doyle]

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10. [SPOILERS for Pokemon SM]

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11. [SPOILERS for The Witcher/Dragon Age]

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12. [SPOILERS for Cupid]
[WARNING for rape, incest]

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13. [WARNING for discussion of rape]

["Blurred Lines", Robin Thicke]

Notes:

Really early because I've got stuff to do, sorry about that.

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Not so! Crows, great apes, dolphins, and octopuses have all demonstrated knowledge of abstract reasoning. Crows, for example, are the only avians (and only corvids, obvs) known to understand the concepts of death and altruism.

Don't have the links on me, but there are some pretty famous stories about the exploits of Koko the gorilla that come to mind as well.

That presence does not mean that they can communicate with humans. Koko's sign language skills have been greatly debated. Interpreter bias is a big issue.

Also, is a magical situation in which I can talk to a dog.

Sure, there are arguments to be made, but I feel obligated to point out that we aren't just drawing from one data point re: sign language in great apes. A bunch of the studies that I've read which attempt to refute the evidence themselves use evidence which one is able to interpret as supportive.

Even in this magical situation one must consider the limitations of reality, even so. It is going to be a lot easier for us to communicate with an animal which does show evidence of understanding abstraction than one that doesn't. So says the theory that the language processing centers of our brains actively shape our perception of reality, at any rate.

Just by going off the wiki page (because I am lazy), it really seems that results are pretty meh at best. Answering questions could (like they say) just be a trick they learned. Like a dog that has learned to "count".

In a magical situation I really don't have to consider the limitations of reality. Just like I don't question where the magic in Harry Potter comes from and how Star Wars fans who hate the prequels like to imagine they don't know where the Force comes from.

rats will actually save other rats from drowning.

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Re: You can talk to any species of animal.

Re: You can talk to any species of animal.

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