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RE: Animal Intelligence and its Implications for Alien Life Part 3: Language
I'm a bit skeptical about Chomsky's claim that no animal languages are recursive either. Mostly because we've found animal communication to be much more complex than previous assumptions and we still have a lot to learn about different communication methods. I'm going to have to think about this...
I honestly share your skepticism- at least because we do have a lot of trouble translating animal language. My gut feeling is that at the very least recursion is really rare among animals, but it's really preemptive to make bold claims about that.