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118 using tech to chat with bonobos dogs and whales lingthusiasm on tumblr explore communities change palette sign up log in lingthusiasm 118 using tech to chat with bonobos dogs and whales can we teach dogs to express their needs better by pressing buttons what about the studies trying to teach bonobos and other primates to communicate through buttons or signs what have we learned about whale communication from the first ever recording of a sperm whale birth in this episode your hosts lauren gawne and gretchen mcculloch get enthusiastic about how people use technology to try and enhance our communications with bonobos dogs and sperm whales sorry other animals you ll need to wait for a future episode we talk about the crucial distinction in animal communication studies between any communication at all yes and language the way humans do it no how we can actually learn more by appreciating animal communication systems on their own terms and how some kinds of tech are helping us do that we also talk about the logistics of studying animal communication including avoiding the clever hans effect how ubiquitous recording technology has changed the game on whalesong in recent decades but there s still lots of catching up to do and an at home study of over 10 000 dogs using buttons they re still recruiting if you want to join click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here announcements gretchen was invited to narrate the audiobook for shakespeare s sonnets abridged beyond the point of usefulness by friend of the podcast zach weinersmith and we have some free copies to give away to patrons follow us at any level on patreon including free to read the behind the scenes post about reading the sonnets and get the audiobook in this month s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about some of our favourite deleted bits from recent interviews that we didn t quite have space to share with you first an excerpt from our interview with danny bate host of the podcast a language i love is about a language he loves czech we talk about learning languages through in laws stock phrases and hidden etymological parallels second more from claire bowern about the mysterious voynich manuscript including a peek inside her super multidisciplinary class on the topic and the story of world war ii codebreakers who worked on the manuscript in between solving lightning fast crossword puzzles and the enigma machine join us on patreon now to get access to this and 110 other bonus episodes and see new projects before they re public you ll also get access to the lingthusiasm discord server where you can chat with other language nerds here are the links mentioned in the episode lingthusiasm bonus episode talking with dogs horses ravens dolphins bees and other animals can we talk to the animals the ethics of using machine learning to decode animal communication by marriah alcantara and kristin andrews bonobos wikipedia entry for kanzi wikipedia entry for yerkish examples of lexigrams koko the gorilla birkin bag post by tom walker on bluesky dogs can our pets really say i love you science is finding out by robyn schelenz sign yourself and your pet up for citizen science with the comparative cognition lab soundboard using pets introducing a new global citizen science approach to interspecies communication by amalia p m bastos and federico rossano washington post article on button dogs can dogs talk by pressing buttons what science says about the debate from the r dogtraining subreddit wikipedia entry for clever hans whales this video captures a rarely seen sperm whale birth it s beautiful by allie yang underwater sounds heard from sperm whales by l v worthington and william e schevill project ceti named after seti cooperation by non kin during birth underpins sperm whale social complexity by alaa maalouf et al description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events by aluma y baron z barrett r et al wham towards a translative model of sperm whale vocalization by o paradise p muralikrishnan l chen h flores garcía b pardo r diamant d f gruber s gero s goldwasser lingthusiasm episode making speech visible with spectrograms you can listen to this episode via lingthusiasm com soundcloud rss apple podcasts itunes spotify youtube or wherever you get your podcasts you can also download an mp3 via the soundcloud page for offline listening to receive an email whenever a new episode drops sign up for the lingthusiasm mailing list you can help keep lingthusiasm ad free get access to bonus content and more perks by supporting us on patreon lingthusiasm is on bluesky instagram facebook mastodon and tumblr email us at contact at lingthusiasm dot com gretchen is on bluesky as gretchenmcculloch com on instagram gretchen mcculloch and blogs at all things linguistic lauren is on bluesky as superlinguo and blogs at superlinguo lingthusiasm is created by gretchen mcculloch and lauren gawne our senior producer is claire gawne our production editor is sarah dopierala our production assistant is martha tsutsui billins our editorial assistant is jon kruk and our technical editor is leah velleman our music is ancient city by the triangles this episode of lingthusiasm is made available under a creative commons attribution non commercial share alike license cc 4 0 by nc sa linguistics language lingthusiasm podcast podcasts episodes episode 118 animal communication communication technology soundcloud 14 32 lingthusiasm lingthusiasm com you are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended please make sure you re using the latest version of chrome firefox safari or edge