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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (286)	2/17/2001 5:45:43 PM
From: Puna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 582

I think what bland wonders about with regard to the parrot N'kis's sensing subtle chemical/emotional changes in her owner could very well play apart in the recorded reactions. I would add to that electrical/chemical. Chemical is easy, pheromones rule the world! I would also add to that that the depth of emotional connection between any two entities, whether human/ & animal or human/ human, would have a great influence to the level, degree and distance that such informational reactions would carry. Here we have a Parrot speaking a limited number of human words for this test and had a quantitative number of positive reactions to the woman looking at pictures. That leads me to wonder a couple of things. 1) Besides the squawking out of a few appropriately timed words, what the parrot would like to express but can't get out in the vocal medium could be looked into. 2) To refer to my thoughts on the native connection and communication with whales again, it seems to me no great stretch of the imagination to look at that unique communion the same way. The native would talk to the whales, pray for the whale, sing & perform emotionally charged ceremonies about & for the whales. Perhaps that was a strong enough bond that it allowed for an exchange of information between the two. Now the whale could not speak in words and the human could not speak in whale tongue, but perhaps they were able over time and open to deeper more subtle levels of communication, able to exchange and decipher another form of information. This could extrapolate to all life forms at its furthest conjecture eh bland! I agree: there is plenty of sensory information available out there to "tell us" what is happening, we are just not tuned in well enough to it to understand we are even getting it at all. We do know the receptors of other species are frequently tuned differently than our own, but we have no direct idea how this may actually affect and influence their perceptions of the world as they experience it. Puna