Re: planets
| From: | Ajin-Kwai <wpii@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 1:45 |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> except MAYBE (and this is highly doubtful, IMO) chimpanzees (and even
> there, AFAIK, no one's claimed that it exists in nature) - but I don't
> want to get into THAT discussion again.
>
Good point about not making it a huge discussion :) but, actually, this
week, as a matter of fact, observers of wild chimpanzees report that
chimpanzee calls, gestures, social organizations and behavioral patterns
differ from place to place - and seem to be passed down uniformly within
groups (implying differing cultures and "dialects"). The problem is, how
do we know what to look for - until relatively recently in modern
linguistics, even distinctions that other humans make in their repertoire
of sounds were often overlooked by western observers.
fo taiacmoi-
.yasmin.