A photograph of three cows looming close and looking straight at the camera. The cows are all white, and they are standing in a green field with a bright, clear blue sky behind them on a sunny day.

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   Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 03:12:28 JST Clive Thompson

   So: The linguistic practices of cows!

   they're *complex*

   for one thing, they're *slow* -- "when a mother calls to her calf, it sometimes takes 60 seconds for the calf to respond"

   some researchers argue that the communications of cows might be more complex than that of whales

   Item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-32-technofossils-sticktok-and-a-web-site/