So, does animal communication exhibit any of these qualities?

那么，这些动物交流时 会展现出其中任何的特质吗？

Research continues to reveal more and more about animal communication.

研究还在不断揭露更多的 关于动物交流的信息。

Well, powerful new technologies are helping researchers decode animal communication.

强大的新技术正在帮助研究人员解密动物的交流。

And that's what digital bioacoustics is doing with audio for the study of animal communication.

这正是数字生物声学结合音频，对动物交流研究产生的影响。

And with artificial intelligence, we can begin to trace patterns in animal communication that we never could before.

有了人工智能，我们可以开始追踪动物交流模式，而这是我们以前无法做到的。

Well, powerful new technologies are helping researchers decode animal communication. And even begin to talk back to nonhumans.

嗯，强大的新技术正在帮助研究人员破译动物交流。甚至可以开始与非人类顶嘴。

People have always been interested in animal communication and scientists have done a lot of research on this subject.

人们一直对动物如何交流感兴趣，科学家们已就这一课题做了许多研究。

Her book explores how researchers are leveraging new tech to understand animal communication even in the burgeoning field of digital bioacoustics.

她的书探讨了研究人员如何利用新技术来了解动物的交流——甚至在数字生物声学这个新兴领域。

Animal communication systems fall into sort of one of three categories.

动物通讯系统属于三类之一。

The book's first, and strongest, claim is that human language is different from animal communication not just in scope, but in kind.

这本书的第一个也是最有力的主张是，人类的语言不仅在范围上不同于动物的交流，而且在性质上也不同。

Animal communication, by contrast, is only able to convey a limited number of thoughts (the location of a source of food, for example, or the presence of a predator).

相比之下，动物之间的交流只能传达有限的想法（比如食物来源的位置，或者捕食者的存在）。

But many scientists today have moved away from this human centric approach, and instead they want to understand animal communication on its own terms.

但今天许多科学家已经摆脱了这种以人类为中心的方法，相反，他们想从动物自身的角度来理解动物的交流。

And because we have words, I mean, animal communication is way more sophisticated than we used to think.

因为我们有语言， 我的意思是，动物交流比我们过去想象的要复杂得多。

What I think is a lot more interesting is the study of these animal communication systems in the wild.

我认为更有趣的是对这些野生动物通讯系统的研究。

Like, for example, that human communication systems differ crucially from animal communication systems, that all languages are equally expressive, even if they do it in different ways.

例如，人类交流系统与动物交流系统有着显著的不同，所有语言都具有相同的表现力， 即使它们以不同的方式进行。

And those who devote their lives to studying it -- both how language emerged, how human languages differ, how they differ from animal communication systems -- are linguists.

那些毕生致力于研究它的人—— 包括语言是如何出现的，人类语言是如何不同的， 它们与动物交流系统有何不同—— 都是语言学家。

" For the biologists, " recalled Fitch, " it was like, 'Oh, good, finally the linguists are being reasonable.'" Evidence of continuities between animal communication and human language continued to mount.

“对于生物学家来说，”菲奇回忆道，“就像是，‘哦，太好了，语言学家终于讲道理了。’”动物交流和人类语言之间连续性的证据不断增加。

In a 2016 book on language evolution titled " Why Only Us, " written with the linguist Robert C. Berwick, Chomsky describes animal communications as " radically different" from human language.

在 2016 年与语言学家罗伯特·C·贝威克 (Robert C. Berwick) 合着的一本关于语言进化的书《为什么只有我们》中，乔姆斯基将动物交流描述为与人类语言“截然不同”。

The professor has been discussing Animal communication systems. OK, so last time, we covered the dances honey bees due to indicate where food can be found and the calls and sounds of different types of birds.

教授一直在讨论动物通讯系统。好的，所以上次，我们介绍了蜜蜂的舞蹈，以指示可以找到食物的地方以及不同类型鸟类的叫声和声音。