Interspecies Communication Quotes

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.

Savage bears agree with one another.

There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species.

I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

My horse's jockey was hitting the horse. The horse turns around and says "Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!"

Humans are able to give very good feedback. You can't tell with an animal what they feel.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?