cats Slow blinking to a cat is a way of saying "I Trust/Love You" Andrew Yi

animals Watch a bonobo and Peter Gabriel make music together David Pescovitz

cephalopods Cuttlefish passes cognitive tests designed for human children Gareth Branwyn

dolphins The Dolphin House, a documentary on John Lilly and Margaret Howe's attempts to communicate with dolphins Gareth Branwyn

Delightful Creatures Cockatoo sees wild turkeys through the window, offers them toy, bangs for their attention Xeni Jardin

Science Horses' facial expressions similar to those of humans David Pescovitz

animals Horses can communicate with people using symbols David Pescovitz

What does the fox say? If only we had "Google Translate for Animals" Jason Weisberger

science fiction Ted Chiang lecture on interspecies communications Cory Doctorow

obituary R.I.P. Koko, the amazing gorilla who used sign language to communicate with humans Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants It's about Time: Reading Steampunk's Rise and Roots Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall

Science When science intersected with the counterculture, things got wonderfully weird David Pescovitz