Scientists are decoding interspecies language and considering the possibility of learning to communicate with other species in the future.

New research points to animals combining different signals to create new meanings, hinting at a primitive syntax previously thought to be unique to humans.

Along with this, experts warn of ethical risks: interspecies communication could affect populations of wild animals and alter their behavior.

A review of studies created with the help of artificial intelligence is being considered as part of the analysis of these materials.

In the Karoo, in the wide semi-desert of South Africa, the African striped mouse enjoys the morning warmth outside its shrub that serves as its home.

Around there is audio equipment: it casts a long shadow on the ground and emits a sequence of high-frequency squeaks, inaudible to human hearing, which disturb the mouse’s morning ritual. The mouse recognizes the signal as an exit from a neighboring nest, just as the scientists who transmitted it planned.

The striped mouse rises on its hind legs, demonstrating caution. However when researchers replay the signal from the mouse from the same nest, the mouse continues to bask in the sun, not reacting to the signal.