#interspecies community

[justalittlesolarpunk]

Literally can’t watch nature documentaries without crying. The miracle of life y’know? We are so far from being alone

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

An important difference that often gets lost in translation:

Dog rolling onto their back: I love you, love you, you! Treat me like a baby puppy and rub my belly! Cat rolling onto their back: You have earned my trust. And for that, I love you. I trust you with my vulnerability. And I know you won't violate my personal space.

[rookflower]

warrior cats ocs who are NOT cats !!!

[westernesotericism]

The John C. Lilly Homepage

[msexcelfractal]

Boo boo thinks she has just taught me to count to three. She taught me the following brushy brushy comb pattern:

LLL RRR

EEE FFF

LLL RRR

L - left cheek

R - right cheek

E - left ear brush forward

F - right ear brush forward

In the last set of 3 I’m to rotate my strokes from her right cheek inward to her neck. Then the brushy brushy sequence is complete.

When I'd brush the wrong place, she would push my hand with her paw or turn her head away. When I stop she pantomime where to brush next, flicking her ear with her own front paw or rubbing her cheek on the chair.

When I put the sequence in correctly, kitty leaned into it very satisfied. After the full sequence she had me stop for a minute, and she’s very happy. After that she had me practice it two more times.

update

today she sat in the "comb me" chair and I put the full sequence without errors. She sat still for the 18 stroke sequence with no corrections. Usually this cat corrects me every 3-5 brush strokes! She was pleased as punch I remembered her whole routine - on the 18th stroke she got up and did big biscuits on her chair. Then she flopped over and gently patted my nose with her paw. That's a high level of praise from this cat :)

[miradawhissu]

(13+) 2 interspecies couples in one post :0

yes two of heres one of them with Mira x Pi (still a Nine x Mira Shipper)

and here's Kraxicorde x M.W (still a M.W x Ten Shipper)

YEYYEYEYEYE I LOVE DRAWING THESE COUPLES SM :]]]]]]]

[weirdimagesweekly]

[Image ID: a low-quality image displaying what appears to be part a flooded street, or a flooded front lawn. In the dirty water, four children are lying on their backs in a line and staring up at the sky. Beside them and below them respectively, two crocodiles are also lying on their backs and floating in the water. /End ID]

[doomspaniels]

When a Kovu dashes in the door, barks in your face, starts to dash away, pausing to glance appealingly over his shoulder... you follow him, of course. You and @thelittlespanielthatcould follow him outside to observe him sniffing, and tell him he's sniffing Very Well.

30% tail, 20% tongue, 50% confidence, 150% Just A Little Guy in an easily portable package.

Seriously, that tail. **envy**

MAXIMUM SPLOOT

[soapoey]

I feel like a certain level of appreciation for nature ought to be an obligation nowadays that our broader cultures only interest in our surrounding ecosystems is how to quickly as possible turn it into another barren suburb. But when it comes down to it i just think youre a bit of a boring person if you cant find it kind of funny and charming for a sentient living thing the size of your finger to be a bit of a bitch with addressing its personal boundaries

[mckitterick]

Kookie Koo Kee

I love birds

[osomatsusanki]

i gave a dog the finger because it was barking at me and it stopped

[eviltext]

i think many-a dungeon meshi fan would benefit from knowing about the existence of the wonderful manga that is heterogenia linguistico

[miradawhissu]

(13+) 2 number bois wanted to kiss Weredog GF

Wanted to draw this tbh since I ship Mira with Nine and Fourteen together since I felt like they are a cute couple

Inspo from that bfb self insert shipper but I don't really like her :[

[jdpink]

As anyone who has been conscious for the past ten months knows, ChatGPT is capable of amazing feats. It can write essays, compose sonnets, explain scientific concepts, and produce jokes (though these last are not necessarily funny). If you ask ChatGPT how it was created, it will tell you that first it was trained on a “massive corpus” of data from the Internet. This phase consisted of what’s called “unsupervised machine learning,” which was performed by an intricate array of processing nodes known as a neural network. Basically, the “learning” involved filling in the blanks; according to ChatGPT, the exercise entailed “predicting the next word in a sentence given the context of the previous words.” By digesting millions of Web pages—and calculating and recalculating the odds—ChatGPT got so good at this guessing game that, without ever understanding English, it mastered the language. (Other languages it is “fluent” in include Chinese, Spanish, and French.)

In theory at least, what goes for English (and Chinese and French) also goes for sperm whale. Provided that a computer model can be trained on enough data, it should be able to master coda prediction. It could then—once again in theory—generate sequences of codas that a sperm whale would find convincing. The model wouldn’t understand sperm whale-ese, but it could, in a manner of speaking, speak it. Call it ClickGPT.

Currently, the largest collection of sperm-whale codas is an archive assembled by Gero in his years on and off Dominica. The codas contain roughly a hundred thousand clicks. In a paper published last year, members of the CETI team estimated that, to fulfill its goals, the project would need to assemble some four billion clicks, which is to say, a collection roughly forty thousand times larger than Gero’s.

““Everybody’s talking these days about these generative A.I. models like ChatGPT,” Goldwasser, who now directs the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, at the University of California, Berkeley, went on. “What are they doing? You are giving them questions or prompts, and then they give you answers, and the way that they do that is by predicting how to complete sentences or what the next word would be. So you could say that’s a goal for CETI—that you don’t necessarily understand what the whales are saying, but that you could predict it with good success. And, therefore, you could maybe generate a conversation that would be understood by a whale, but maybe you don’t understand it. So that’s kind of a weird success.””

Can We Talk to Whales?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/can-we-talk-to-whales

via Instapaper

[seasaltbaptism]

me: ( sprays some perfume where i’m sitting )

my cat: ( bolts )

me: now that didnt come anywhere near u get ur ass back here ( picks her up and plops her back in bed ) drama queen

me: i’d never ever spray u!

my cat: 🥺 okie

my cat: ( gives herself a small bath n lays down again )

my cat: zzzz