What is this science that will one day allow us to dialogue with them?

Automatic translation – Zoosemiotics aims to decipher the language and language of animals to better understand them, protect them and perhaps one day be able to dialogue with them

Let the owner of a pet who has never spoken to his little companion raise his paw. Person ? Normal, we all know very well that in a certain way, they understand us, that a real exchange exists. Unfortunately we do not have an automatic translator that allows a frank discussion. Not yet…

We are even very far from it. But this is nevertheless what zoosemiotics tends towards. Let’s cut it straight away: these are not telepaths, clairvoyants or other scammers who claim to communicate with your animal through thought. No, we are talking here about real experts who study and decipher the language and the language of animals of all kinds.

Researchers in language sciences, historians, ethologists, veterinarians… A large number of skills are found in the French Society of Zoosemiotics (SFZ) founded in 2017 at the Sorbonne. A scholarly name which hides the study of signs applied to animals.

Some animals are “sentient” beings

“This discipline aims to make animals speak,” explains Astrid Guillaume, lecturer in semiotics at Sorbonne University and founder of the SFZ. Not in the first sense of the term of course, “but we seek to understand their language and their l(…) Read more on 20minutes

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