{"id":468,"date":"2021-04-07T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=468"},"modified":"2021-04-07T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:42:03","slug":"animals-and-language-what-do-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/animals-and-language-what-do-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals and Language: What Do You Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today for Brain Breakfast, we discussed whether we believe animals are able to use language and communication. We watched this video of Billi, a cat who has been a part of the &#8216;Hungry for Words&#8217; program. This program is researching and testing whether animals like dogs and cats can use human language\/words when given the tools and training.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below of Billi using her word buttons!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Cat&#039;s Favorite Word Is Exactly What You&#039;d Expect | The Dodo Cat Crazy\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TPJwzL8awJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some discussion questions for at home:<\/p>\n<p>-Do you think that Billi really understands the words she is using? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>-What are some ways that animals might communicate with humans or other animals? Do they have their own &#8216;language&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>-If you could talk to a pet, what do you think they would say? What questions might you ask them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today for Brain Breakfast, we discussed whether we believe animals are able to use language and communication. We watched this video of Billi, a cat who has been a part of the &#8216;Hungry for Words&#8217; program. This program is researching and testing whether animals like dogs and cats can use human language\/words when given the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/animals-and-language-what-do-you-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Animals and Language: What Do You Think?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}