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Pensive Weeb | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @Christmassy Merry Dude @b8ed4588 @Electric Pants :prince_dance:  
Language would probably have been a better word than communication. Do bears 'talk' or do they 'communicate'? Dogs communicate, crows communicate, dolphins communicate, and yet none of them talk. Without language there can be no integration into human society.
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Christmassy Merry Dude | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @Pensive Weeb @b8ed4588 @Electric Pants :prince_dance:  This is a little deeper. Black bears have near-universal body language, but their tongues didn't evolve for spoken language like humans.

Some sort of sign language may be possible. I don't think anyone's tried to do it with bears yet, but I don't see any reason why we couldn't.