Cats, being a spell casting witch with a magical talking cat familiar would be amazing, we’d ride together on a flying broom at night beneath an unrealistically large full moon while clouds drift by. It would be truly meowgical. 🐱 🧹 🌕 ✨
Crows. I think they would have stuff to say.
They are known to hold inter-generational grudges.
Mess with one crow and it will warn the whole family about you.
Especially its children.
No joke.
So… good luck.That’s why I always tell my dog on walks “Crows are Bros” and never let him bother them.
Last spring (not this past spring, but last year) I came across a fledgling crow on the ground when I was walking my dog. It was on our normal dog walk route and I checked in on it daily, giving it space. After 3 days or so I gave it some water and did some reading about fledgling birds and all that. After it had been on the ground for a week I called an animal rescue and they came and checked on it and sure enough, it was injured so they took it.
Just about every day the crows caw and click at me when we walk. I don’t know if they recognize us and are scolding us or if they’re just doing crow things. I hope they dont think too poorly of me, I was trying to help.
I’ll be careful
They, like parrots, can also mimic speech
They definitely knows something
Most communication is based on the context of our society. I bet we wouldn’t understand the context of Dolphins for example.
Better communicate with intention. When you make good intentions clear, have patients, move slow, etc, then you can attempt communication with many animals already.
I can communicate with my cat, and I understand perfectly when she wants dinner. I can signal her that she needs to wait for a little while. I can understand her frustration when the neighbor cat visits our garden. I can see in the neighbor’s cat’s eyes he just want to chill here because of his enthusiastic dog housemate. I still have to figure out what that blue-tit wants from me. I left him some fresh water, see where that goes. It could be it just tries to tell me it’s a bit busy in the backyard…
have patients
Yes, Doctor.
Octopi would be awesome to speak with. Or really any intelligent deep sea creature
ohh I have so many questions for octopus. let me know if you develop this skill
cats. they are either the dumbest creatures on the planet or the most cunning smartasses.
Agreed. I have one of each. Or at least that’s how it seems. Maybe all cats are both at the same time?
Personally, I choose the Mourning Doves. I’d like to be able to let some of them know that it’s ok to move if their significant other passes.
Also to use them to gather information, or send them on little flight retrieval missions for coins and trinkets and what not.
Dogs, but only so I can yell “bark” at them in their language
Bristlecone pine trees.
Well, I have chickens, so that’s the obvious answer. But I already know what they’d say and it amounts to “feed me” 24/7
So, the next obvious answer is dogs because I love them so much. But, beyond the fantasy of it, I suspect that would end up depressing as fuck because not every dog has a good life, so what they say might drive me to homicide.
Which leaves rats. I’d go with “rodents” given the choice, but if I can only pick one, rats are the most problematic overall. The chance to talk to them and maybe negotiate them buggering off instead of getting killed would be both awesome, and possibly profitable when successful.
I’d like to speak to tardigrades in Inuktitut. I’m pretty sure neither of us speak or understand it, it’s just something I’d like to do.
Bottlenosed dolphins and then orcas.
Orcas are the smartest creatures on the planet,
so they’ll have a lot to say.But bottlenosed dolphins are animals I think we could actually learn their language most easily from, due to their interest in us.
And I would choose to communicate them in their language, because that’s the most realistic.
And I’ve written down a method on how to do exactly that.You just create an underwater vending machine for them that lists a couple of random nonsensical words dolphins are able to repeat, any of these nonsensical dolphin words is on order of a toy/food that if dolphin were to repeat, would be similar to a button press on the vending machine, delivering the toy of food item. Then after they have learned how to mimic these words, you then have the vending machine add an additional function where the dolphins can change the settings of the vending machine, thus giving the dolphins the opportunity to reprogram the spoken orders of the vending machine.
The idea is that they will naturally start to reprogram the vending machine to turn the random words into words of their own language.
SEALS
