Look in to prairie dog communication. Just sounds like dumb yips to us, but each little yip is full of information. Stuff like “Human with dog is approaching from 20 feet away.”
That is a fairly simple example, but it basically shows that the communication modes of other earthly species are so alien to us that we have no hope of comprehending them. The world could be filled with whole species of brilliant philosophic minds, and we just wouldn’t know it, but crows and dolphins are a good bet for sapience at least.
Also: Other Edens is a loose fit but might be to your liking. It does parallel worlds stuff, instead of having all the species be native here.
Just look out a window bruv.
Look in to prairie dog communication. Just sounds like dumb yips to us, but each little yip is full of information. Stuff like “Human with dog is approaching from 20 feet away.”
That is a fairly simple example, but it basically shows that the communication modes of other earthly species are so alien to us that we have no hope of comprehending them. The world could be filled with whole species of brilliant philosophic minds, and we just wouldn’t know it, but crows and dolphins are a good bet for sapience at least.
Also: Other Edens is a loose fit but might be to your liking. It does parallel worlds stuff, instead of having all the species be native here.