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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldThey are displeased
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    21 days ago

    In fact, that is the expert consensus on language skills among animals (according to John McWhorter’s “The Story of Human Language”). Animals understand and can “talk” about things in the here and now but not in the past, in the future, or in abstract terms.

    (My source was published in 2004 but I haven’t heard anything to the contrary since then.)