If you could verbally speak (in your preferred language) with any species still living on Earth, which species would you choose to communicate with?
2026-06-30 20:52 UTC
Replies (22)
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@Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2026-06-30 20:55
Personally, I choose the Mourning Doves. I’d like to be able to let some of them know that it’s ok to move if their significant other passes. Also to use them to gather information, or send them on little flight retrieval missions for coins and trinkets and what not.
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@hobata@lemmy.ml 2026-06-30 20:59
cats. they are either the dumbest creatures on the planet or the most cunning smartasses.
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@dom@lemmy.ca 2026-06-30 21:14
Octopi would be awesome to speak with. Or really any intelligent deep sea creature
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@Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-06-30 21:16
Snarky reply: humans. Actual reply: dogs. I already talk to my dog in English
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@ByteMe@lemmy.world 2026-06-30 21:25
Crows. I think they would have stuff to say.
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@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-30 21:24
Well, I have chickens, so that’s the obvious answer. But I already know what they’d say and it amounts to “feed me” 24/7 So, the next obvious answer is dogs because I love them so much. But, beyond the fantasy of it, I suspect that would end up depressing as fuck because not every dog has a good life, so what they say might drive me to homicide. Which leaves rats. I’d go with “rodents” given the choice, but if I can only pick one, rats are the most problematic overall. The chance to talk to them and maybe negotiate them buggering off instead of getting killed would be both awesome, and possibly profitable when successful.
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@thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml 2026-06-30 22:16
SEALS
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@agentTeiko@piefed.social 2026-06-30 22:30
The answer is beetles I would command them to band together and take over the world.
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@ashenone@lemmy.ml 2026-06-30 22:58
Dogs, but only so I can yell “bark” at them in their language
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@webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-30 23:04
Trees.
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@My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 2026-06-30 23:12
Bristlecone pine trees.
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@folaht@lemmy.ml 2026-06-30 23:37
Bottlenosed dolphins and then orcas. And I would choose to communicate them in their language, because that’s the most realistic. And I’ve written down a method on how to do that. You just create a underwater vending machine for them where you can order toys/food by sound and then after they have learned how to mimic the sounds to order the items from the vending machine, have them program the spoken orders. The idea is that they will naturally start to program the random sounds into words of their own language.
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@Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 2026-07-01 00:36
Most communication is based on the context of our society. I bet we wouldn’t understand the context of Dolphins for example. Better communicate with intention. When you make good intentions clear, have patients, move slow, etc, then you can attempt communication with many animals already. I can communicate with my cat, and I understand perfectly when she wants dinner. I can signal her that she needs to wait for a little while. I can understand her frustration when the neighbor cat visits our garden. I can see in the neighbor’s cat’s eyes he just want to chill here because of his enthusiastic dog housemate. I still have to figure out what that blue-tit wants from me. I left him some fresh water, see where that goes. It could be it just tries to tell me it’s a bit busy in the backyard…
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@FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-01 01:02
Ants in Gaelic. They’re ubiquitous They have a very different lifestyle, so would be super interesting to talk to They eat all sorts of things, can get anywhere, and can fuck up electronics. Seems like a nice friend to have… They are warlike and territorial, so I’m hoping for some leeway in terms of judgment for what humans have done to the planet. Gaelic because whimsy
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@ILikeToMeow@lemmy.ml 2026-07-01 04:28
Cats, being a spell casting witch with a magical talking cat familiar would be amazing, we’d ride together on a flying broom at night beneath an unrealistically large full moon while clouds drift by. It would be truly meowgical. 🐱 🧹 🌕 ✨
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@orenj@leminal.space 2026-07-01 16:19
Humans, of course.
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@sunsofold@lemmy.zip 2026-07-01 23:24
Bees or ants. I wish to taste the hive mind.
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@megopie@beehaw.org 2026-07-02 01:43
Raccoons, possums or corvids. Raccoons are just great, little treasure pandas. I would to live to know what they see, what their internal worlds are like. Possums because they’re an ancient linage of marsupial, an isolate and they would sure have some ancient lore and deep oral tradional. Corvids because I wish to understand the inner machinations of their devious bird brains.
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@Sarothazrom@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 01:54
cats, solely so i could speak to my little girl.
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@Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-02 17:47
Looks at the precise wording The Yellow Slime Mold, I want to know what an amoeba thinks and what better than the worlds smartest one? Picture for reference, and yes it’s all one cell:
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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-02 22:20
Dogs or Cats.
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@Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-15 14:17
The most lucrative would be dogs, cats, or horses.