Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Bird 'language' and foreign-language learning

NPR just ran a little piece on how red-breasted nuthatches can understand pretty subtle differences in the warning calls of chickadees. That's very useful information if you're a nuthatch and there's a sparrowhawk flying overhead. Pretty metaphorical, but it does speak to the value of learning foreign languages.

But why do they have to call this "language"?

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Anonymous said...

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