• Question: Why can animals speak in human voices? could we ever train them to?

    Asked by bethwest to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 18 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by jesspartington.
    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      some animals can already, things like parrots. But they are only repeating sounds they have heard, they’re not making their own sentences.

    • Photo: James Holloway

      James Holloway answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      There is a bird called the mocking bird which can copy almost any sound you can hear. Here is one making the sounds of a car alarm, chainsaw, camera shutter and more:

      So animals can immiate human voice, but they can’t understand the language behind it.

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