Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Doctor Dolittle had it wrong, but animals do communicate
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
“Doctor Dolittle, despite his good intentions, was laboring under a misapprehension,” writes Stephen Anderson, professor of linguistics and psychology at Yale, in his new book “Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language” (Yale, $35).
Hugh Lofting’s early 20th Century novels about a doctor who converses with animals may be delightful works of literature, [...]
Rico the dog’s vocabulary restarts linguists’ debate
Thursday, July 1st, 2004
One thing everyone agrees on: Rico is one special dog.
Researchers in Germany spotted Rico on a TV game show and brought him in for tests. What they found, the journal Science reported last month, was that the brilliant border collie seemed to recognize more than 200 German words. That kind of vocabulary was previously thought [...]
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