• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzM
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    21 days ago

    There’s some amazing info on crow communication here: part 1, part 2. Not actual language* yet, but it shows they’re doing far more than caw-ing at each other, and they do associate meaning with specific calls.

    The first link even mentions crows raised by a human tend to repeat their names if they’re looking for the human; that’s really close to what the parrots do, it’s more like they have a name for the relationship than for themselves.

    *so far the closest I’ve seen was cetaceans using some sort of phoneme equivalent, and chimps pairing vocalisations for subtler meaning (e.g. up+threat = flying predator).