{"id":1173,"date":"2010-01-03T22:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/01\/03\/secret-language-of-scientists-going-public\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T22:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T03:18:59","slug":"secret-language-of-scientists-going-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/01\/03\/secret-language-of-scientists-going-public\/","title":{"rendered":"secret language (of scientists) going public"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a time when so many social mammal species are in crisis, it’s at least heartening to see news like tonight’s 60 Minutes segment on “The Secret Language of Elephants<\/a>” or today’s Times Online article “Scientists say dolphins should be treated as ‘non-human persons’<\/a>.” The scientific taboo on anthropomorphism is finally lifting, and animal behavior studies are becoming more like anthropology — something that only lone rogue anthros like John Lilly or Barbara Noske<\/a> would have dared call for not too long ago…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a time when so many social mammal species are in crisis, it’s at least heartening to see news like tonight’s 60 Minutes segment on “The Secret Language of Elephants<\/a>” or today’s Times Online article “Scientists say dolphins should be treated as ‘non-human persons’<\/a>.” The scientific taboo on anthropomorphism is finally lifting, and animal behavior studies are becoming more like anthropology — something that only the lone rogue anthros like John Lilly or Barbara Noske<\/a> would have dared call for not too long ago…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[196],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecoculture","tag-animals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-iV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5083,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/07\/22\/moving-environments-day-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1173,"position":0},"title":"Moving Environments, Day 1","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"July 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"What follows are notes from the first day of Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, and Ecocinema. 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