The Future Of Interspecies Communication
summary
Claim that humans and animals have collaborated for up to 100,000 years (honeyguide birds guiding people to bee nests); project to build Autopia at Schloss Nymphenburg as a life‑science forum; provocative art piece chicken VR "calculus rift" makes battery hens perceive free range; plan to compare vocal learning across species with touchscreens and automated sound‑classification; use RFID, GPS, playback, OCR‑style audio clustering and Oculus‑style displays to translate UV, ultrasound and infrasound; Alex the parrot inferred 7 and 8 without training.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to Biotopia
- 1:25History of communication
- 4:48Biotopia vision and goals
- 7:36Animal cognitive abilities
- 13:10Research and technology
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