I think we'll get there. Some animals are able to learn enough of our languages to understand us. Dogs, dolphins, for example. I think the problem is humans ability to understand animals. We don't seem that good at it so far.

But how would they get it off? I imagine it'd be like holding a chopstick with your mouth and trying to eat something you spear with the chop.

rethinks life decisions

Imagine if they ever figure out they can spear shit with their tusks.

The tusk/tooth is made of two different materials one inside and one outside. They spiral in different directions and that apparently keeps it straight

Those old Looney Tunes cartoons tell a different story.

Just sayin’.

Similar with swordfish. If they speared food they'd have difficulty removing it without hands.

Is it Jesus Camp?

I was curious about what the tusk is even used for

https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2019/03/08/exactly-narwhal-tusk/

There’s research that suggests the narwhal tusk is used primarily for hunting, but contrary to what you might be imagining, they don’t actually spear their food. In fact, there’s video evidence indicating that they instead give a quick and firm “tusk tap” to momentarily stun their prey (usually fish, shrimp or squid) and then quickly suck them up.

TIL that narwhal tusks are for smacking and not stabbing

The video link, although I haven't watched it myself and didn't find the timestamp: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OoTjLIN67Bw

so, it wasn't the midnight bacon then

if it is a long canine, wonder about the transition period, for a while they had a useless tiny teeth coming out of the front of their face

Step 1: be a magical unicorn
Step 2:…

They're just whales with a shitty dental plan.

That’s wild. Literally. Would love to know more about narwhals and toothy tusks!!

Given how we currently treat animals, it will likely be catastrophic for them

Anthro(pomorph)ic

Add some stickers or decals

https://wildlife.org/window-decals-create-sticky-situation-for-deterring-bird-strikes/

The estimate is 16 to 42 million birds die each year from hitting glass. On the low end, each building (of which there are 15.5 million in Canada approximately [source]) on average one bird dies due to hitting glass per building. That is not quite in the realm of 'piles of birds around every low rise building', given that they do not occur all at once (it is an annual number after all), and the bodies do decompose, get eaten, or get cleaned up.

Any tips on how to make a big window, bird safe?

Whenever I hear the supposed numbers around bird death attributed to both cats and buildings, they seems enormously exaggerated:

In Canada, tens of millions of birds are killed annually by crashing into glass on buildings, most of which are low-rise or residential.

Tens of millions? We should be seeing piles of dead birds all around low rise building all over Canada. I haven't been to Canada in 20 years, but I don't recall that being the case. If that were true of Canada, then it would be true of America, too, and that certainly isn't the case. I seldom see a dead bird. I don't ever recall being in a house when a bird hit a window, and I'm an old guy. I'm sure plenty of people will say it happened to them ONCE, but tens of millions of times? Bird strikes on windows would be routine.

I recently read that the massive bird deaths attributed to cats are exaggerated. It turns out that those studies are greatly flawed. It seems that the decreases in bird populations are due to MANY factors, of which windows and cats are only 2, and have been there for a long time. Other factors, like Climate Change, urban sprawl, real estate development, pesticides/ herbicides, various predators besides cats (owls, hawks, eagles, squirrels, raccoons, crows, etc.), etc.

Everybody has a pet reason for the decrease in bird populations, and they're all correct, they just aren't solely responsible.

Based on the more informative article by the bbc: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260817-the-giant-shark-that-seems-to-appear-from-nowhere

& as studied by the Shark Research Foundation: https://sharkresearch.org/, though I couldn't find anything about them on their website.

Yeah jfc you gotta have a big ego to study these sharks so intently that you figure out where they have been hiding their young, and then expose that to the hunters for headpats.

It's the water. I bet they hide in the water.

Keep human away! No need to find leave alone.

Why do I keep getting the feeling that the Dolphins keep trying to use tools and props to warn us Earth is about to be demolished for a hyperspace bypass?

Wow! Let's add them to the list of super intelligent animals with tool use, next to New Caledonian Crow. If not for this, maybe coz of their telepathic abilities