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Sadly, we've never found anything that proves animal communications have grammar. Or in information-theoretic terms, these are low entropy messages. They are instinctive things, like a hard-wired set of warning cries, or "write-once", like how male songbirds learn their species song during puberty, and will produce it identically forever, once stabilized (even if they go deaf!)


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