I would like to ask you a question. Who-so-ever reading this article; has a mobile phone? Okay. As I suspected, nearly everyone. It’s a pretty cool form of communication, right? But, what if there’s another form of communication, that didn’t need you to charge the batteries, wouldn’t cost anything, and crosses the species barrier? Wouldn’t that be way cooler?
You already have this form of communication. Everybody can talk to animals. That might seem obvious but what might surprise you is that they reply to us, and we converse with them. They can reply to us, and we can have a conversation within.
You might be wondering, can anyone really communicate with animals? And the answer is ‘Yes! This is not a gift for the special few. This is natural ability that we all possess. This is normal practice in the lives of indigenous people.
Children are particularly good at this, because they are still in with their intuitive nature.
So, what is animal communication? It is the ability to telepathically communicate with animals. Intuition, which is defined It is based on as ‘the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning.
I believe we are all born with an intuitive nature. We are experiencing intuitive moments all of the time. We might think of a friend, and then the phone rings or we might think: ‘I feel that I need to go to my back door to let my cat in.’ And when you get there they are, waiting for you. I think is happening, is that we are picking upon energy. Advances in quantum theory, tell us that the universe is filled with energy. Energy is everywhere and takes any shape.
We ourselves are beings of energy and vibration, radiating our own unique Signature, a bit like our own fingerprint. Animals are also radiating their own unique energy signature because they are beings of energy & vibration too.
In 2012, a group of neuroscientists addressed the issue of animal consciousness. They signed the Cambridge declaration of Consciousness, and this stated, ‘The weighted evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological Substrates that generate consciousness!’ They included and all mammals, all birds, other creatures, including the Octopus.
The former- executive director of the Minfd Science foundation, Joseph Dial said, “Animal consciousness and human consciousness are of such similarity that we have to ask ourselves.
“How we treat animals and why we treat them the way that we do.”
At the moment, one elephant is Killed every 5 minutes for its ivory. Experts calculate that two thirds of the planet’s wild animals will be gone by 2030.
We urgently need to change our relationship with our fellow species. I believe a powerful way of doing this is by communicating with them. We communicate using a universal language: It’s the language of energy. The energy impressions we receive are then translated into the language that we comprehend. They’re also interpreted by our body as data, using the senses.
So we perceive an image or emotion, a thought from physical sensations, smell or taste. We might have a gut feeling of Knowing.
We can communicate with animals to find them. And wouldn’t we also love to know what they are thinking?
When we communicate with animals to find them, from a place of unconditional love. It is a route to understanding them on a deeper level, and for them to understand us. It’s not about control or dominance, or getting them to do what we want. Animals, they are not products; they are sentient beings. Communicating and giving them a chance to express their feelings can really help with changes like, loss, relationships and rehabilitation. Giving animals the chance to express their feelings and to be really heard helps them, much like a human being receiving a counseling session.
We can communicate with domestic animals. But we are not limited to them we can also communicate- with wild animals, those living freely and also those kept in captivity, we can communicate with all creatures. We can converse with lions, dolphins, whales, flies, mice & beetles, and Guinea pigs like Trevor, chickens like Sophie, and COLOS the like Esther, the only limit is the one that we put there.
Neuroscientists Doctor John Lilly said, ‘What I found after 12 years of working with dolphins was that the limits weren’t in them, it’s in us. The limits were so, that I had to go away and ask myself, who am I?’
People attends Pea Horsely’s workshops because they really want to help animals. However, what they realise very quickly is that the animals are helping them, to get back in touch with who they really are; reminding us all that we are a part of nature.
The truth is: Animals have things to say, and they’re just waiting for us to listen. You just need to start a conversation, rest will follow.
Animals are always talking but are they saying anything? Are the birds outside my window in the morning judging me for sleeping past sunrise, If only we could understand them – Well, it turns out we might be able to. Artificial Intelligence is paving the way towards this goal and maybe in a year or three we may hear the first translation of animal languages. But how are we going to achieve this?
Overcoming the monumental divide between human & animal language has always fascinated us. Throughout Human history we have told stories of people communicating with animals. From stories of adventures in ancient Greece discovering talking monsters to Modern movie franchises, for ancient civilizations, animals were a vital resource and a constant thread. So, the idea of being able to communicate with them, was seen as a gift from the gods.
Nowadays, we just want to talk to our pets like we do with the rest of our family. The exciting thing is The Advent of more complex Al and better methods for requiring large swaths of data have built a bridge to connect us to the animal world. But, how does it work? The most common way that we translate between languages is to use two Separate Al’s: one takes an input, let’s say English and encodes it into a mathematical representation of a Sentence called an embedding. And a second that takes that representation and decodes it into another language, say German, But this requires a Shared index, To translate ‘I’m going hiking’ – ‘Ich Gehe Wanderweg’, we need to already know how to translate from English to German, we need an equivalent of a Rosetta Stone for the two languages.
Or a human that can speak both languages to confirm if this translation is correct. Well, that at least used to be true, Scientists have found a new way to translate languages that doesn’t require any understanding of either language. Instead we just need to make the maps of the languages and compare them.
To make a map, they measure a Statistical distance between words & how often those words are used in conjunction with each other. Each dot on the map is a word and the distance in this multi-dimensional space between the dots, encodes the information of the average distance between the words. For a simple example, ‘The blue house is nice’ The mapping would detect all of the adjacent words and give them a distance of one, like blue house, and then a distance of two for words that have Something in between like that house. A real map is little bit more complex than this. But this gives the general gist of how it works. The map basically measures what words are commonly used together and how the grammar works but it doesn’t require any understanding. But now does this help with translations? Well, it turns out that this map is basically the same for all languages. If you take the map of English and you overlay with it with any other languages, it is extremely close to each other. So to translate, you just have to highlight the words in English map and then pick the adjacent words in the German map.
The amazing thing is this works and it even work for languages that don’t share a similar Structure like English & Chinese. So, if this can work for such dramatically different human languages, can’t it work for animals?
Animals clearly communicate, but language is special because it has grammar. There is a structure to the words that helps to improve our understanding. It is not obvious that other animal species will have grammar in their communication and if they do, will it cook anything like any of the grammar that we’ve invented. However, there is evidence that animals Species do have some form of a language, that goes beyond a series of words or should I say grunts, barks, squeaks, Squawks, meows, and for a liar bird any sound that it wants. But there is one species that stands above the rest, as the most likely to have a complex form of language; Sperm Whales. These majestic deep sea creatures are truly bizarre. They have an eerie sleeping technique of Floating vertically in the sea which I can only imagine is the sea life equivalent of vampires sleeping with their arms folded.
They also live in well-connected social groups, which is also similar to vampires. But unlike vampires they can communicate with other sperm whales through a series of clicks. These clicks are the loudest sound made by any animal on the planet, reaching up to 230 DB, which is mind Bogging loud.
Considering, that DCB are log the rhythmic scale meaning that an increase in 10 OB is a doubling of the apparent loudness. For reference, prolonged exposure to 85 DB, can cause damage to our ears 140, we’ll start to feel pain.
Sperm whales get up to 230 OBi which is six times louder than a rocket or a volcano. This is so loud that they’d rupture our ear drums and potentially so loud that if we were standing next to them, we could die from the intensity of the click.
They need this volume to be able to communicate with their whale pod over hundreds to thousands of kilometers away.
But why do we think that they have a proper language system. Simply put, that is what the science is telling us. Scientists have spent a lot of time recording and categorizing clicks from these whales and they have discovered amazing complexity to their communication. Their clicks have a pattern to them; they can’t come in a Series of clicks that appear to be akin to words. As the same pattern is often repeated when doing the same thing. For example, one series of clicks can be associated with diving down while another can be associated with coming up for air. Additionally, there is distinct difference between clicks that are used for track our location and ones that are used for communication.
As we keep uncovering the mysteries of nature, one question remains both exciting and elusive, what if we could actually talk to animals? Take whales, for example. Their complex clicks and patterns seem to hint at a whole language we don’t fully understand yet. The more we study them, the clearer it becomes that we know so little about how deeply they think and how rich their “voices” might be.
Could we one day crack the code of their language, building a bridge between us and the animals we share this planet with? Maybe the answer isn’t just in technology but in our ability to really listen, to understand, and to explore the unseen harmony of the animal world.
For now, it’s all still a big “what if,” but it’s the kind of question that fires up the imagination and keeps us dreaming of the day we might connect in ways we’ve never imagined before.
