"Sleep higher up on the tree branches. Don't trust foxes. Don't stay near our property limits at dawn. Trust our dog. Be aware of sudden sounds at night"
You are a resource. Food. That's all you are. It's all you can ever be. A commodity. The lowest level of life on our planet. We make jokes about you. We use you as a basis for negative stereotypes. Chickenshit, dumb cluck. We eat your eggs. Take them away from you, still warm. Sometimes our chldren throw them at houses for fun. The minute, the exact second, you become too old to lay you are going to be decapitated. A farmer is going to laugh at the absurdity of your headless corpse frantically scrambling, unaware the life has already left it. He'll hang your cadaver up by the feet and let the blood drain into the dirt from the gaping wound that used to be your neck. Then the feathers go, he'll toss most of your guts and your feet into the trash or else give them to his dogs. The rest of you will go into an oven, your flesh consumed. It's not even a noteworthy meal, people consider your kind every day fare. Your life was nothing to write home about, isn't that funny? Your bones will be boiled to make a broth used as an ingredient to make other food taste better. That's your value in this world, to end up as a nugget of meat shaped like a triceratops. God has abandoned you to us. Frick you, chicken.
There wouldn't be much to say, because chicken communication is purely instinctive, not a learned abstract language where conscious comprehension is in any way required. It seems to be sounds that trigger the brain to process the results of certain sensory responses. If you were a chicken and had a conscious mind (they don't), the right "cluck" would induce an involuntary feeling that you are scared of something above you. A neat trick that makes you wonder about other "animal languages". For example, we already know canine vocalizations are genetically determined - inherited traits, not learned. They do not learn to speak wolf or learn to speak dog, whether they do or do not, and whether their brain responds appropriately to the sound, is entirely down to DNA.
Thus far, very few animals have even been able to understand actual language (not sound associations, but things with grammar). Dogs are among them (with literally 10 years of study and a dog so thoroughly bred to learn from humans that it has a mild form of OCD and is incapable of learning by watching its own species) which means it shouldn't take much, at least for a more advanced mammal. All that proves is with a willing dog it can take 10 years to teach them to have some amount of actual thought - although it is possible there is just no proof they think before that. But what none of them have ever been able to do is produce a consciously comprehended language with grammar. None of them. There's not even material proof that dolphins and orcas have spoken language, and not just repeating signals you can interpret any way you want. Even arguably more intelligent chimpanzees just produce word vomit.
"Sleep higher up on the tree branches. Don't trust foxes. Don't stay near our property limits at dawn. Trust our dog. Be aware of sudden sounds at night"
>what would you tell them
Chicken Arise!
ARISE CHICKEN
I would say thank you for the eggs and then give them some seeds
You are a resource. Food. That's all you are. It's all you can ever be. A commodity. The lowest level of life on our planet. We make jokes about you. We use you as a basis for negative stereotypes. Chickenshit, dumb cluck. We eat your eggs. Take them away from you, still warm. Sometimes our chldren throw them at houses for fun. The minute, the exact second, you become too old to lay you are going to be decapitated. A farmer is going to laugh at the absurdity of your headless corpse frantically scrambling, unaware the life has already left it. He'll hang your cadaver up by the feet and let the blood drain into the dirt from the gaping wound that used to be your neck. Then the feathers go, he'll toss most of your guts and your feet into the trash or else give them to his dogs. The rest of you will go into an oven, your flesh consumed. It's not even a noteworthy meal, people consider your kind every day fare. Your life was nothing to write home about, isn't that funny? Your bones will be boiled to make a broth used as an ingredient to make other food taste better. That's your value in this world, to end up as a nugget of meat shaped like a triceratops. God has abandoned you to us. Frick you, chicken.
call a chicken a Black person before beheading it
Incredibly rude.
Nothing. I'd listen to what they have to say. And that's what no one did.
complement beak and talons
>CHICKEN WATCH OUT THERE'S A HAWK
>WHERE?!
>HAHAHAHA GOT YOU
There wouldn't be much to say, because chicken communication is purely instinctive, not a learned abstract language where conscious comprehension is in any way required. It seems to be sounds that trigger the brain to process the results of certain sensory responses. If you were a chicken and had a conscious mind (they don't), the right "cluck" would induce an involuntary feeling that you are scared of something above you. A neat trick that makes you wonder about other "animal languages". For example, we already know canine vocalizations are genetically determined - inherited traits, not learned. They do not learn to speak wolf or learn to speak dog, whether they do or do not, and whether their brain responds appropriately to the sound, is entirely down to DNA.
Thus far, very few animals have even been able to understand actual language (not sound associations, but things with grammar). Dogs are among them (with literally 10 years of study and a dog so thoroughly bred to learn from humans that it has a mild form of OCD and is incapable of learning by watching its own species) which means it shouldn't take much, at least for a more advanced mammal. All that proves is with a willing dog it can take 10 years to teach them to have some amount of actual thought - although it is possible there is just no proof they think before that. But what none of them have ever been able to do is produce a consciously comprehended language with grammar. None of them. There's not even material proof that dolphins and orcas have spoken language, and not just repeating signals you can interpret any way you want. Even arguably more intelligent chimpanzees just produce word vomit.
Counter argument. Parrots.
could this be the key to the device that allows spiders to speak with cats?
I'd tell them to get their lazy asses back to work and lay some EGGS you freeloading bastards.
ask them to show cloaca
perv
wiener-a-doodle-doo, sir!