I fully agree that they attempt to communicate with us but the fact is we don't know exactly what they are saying and they have absolutely no idea what we are saying. so while I agree there is some communication going on, it is no where near sign language or talking. also I thing there us. Basic communication through behavior and speaking/signalling a specific language are completely different. That's myI have read about gorrilas and non-human primates "talking" through a sort of sign language; could octopuses do that?
ckeiser;176881 said:I wonder if anyone has tried to set up some associative learning with cephalopods. Anyone on here ever try to associate a certain behavior in their house ceph with a reward, or a response to some hand signal? This would be a start to one form of interspecific (ceph-human) communication. I do think, however, that life span would influence the success of such an endeavor.