“Right now, if you ask me, ‘Does Bunny talk?’ the answer is, I don’t know.”īunny is the most well-known of the participants, but there are currently over 900 animals involved. Her custom Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) soundboard has over 70 buttons that produce pre-recorded words in six categories the buttons are organized using the Fitzgerald Key, originally developed to teach deaf children sentence structure. ![]() Over the decades these inquiries have led to in-fighting between those who believe that some animals can be trained to converse with humans, and those who think that human bias and misinterpretation underlie any such communication skills.īunny is more than a TikTok celebrity, she is a participant in the latest attempt to research these issues, through her involvement in a large study called They Can Talk, based at the Comparative Cognition Lab at University of California San Diego (UCSD).
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