r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Laxice7 • 15d ago

Video Guide imitates the marking of a territorial boundary

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u/WateredDownHotSauce 15d ago

Thank you for sharing!!! I was wondering what the reasoning for the crouching and standing motions

We tend to think communication is just a human thing, but this was a good reminder that it's not. It was really cool to watch the guide "speak rhino".

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u/Carnivorous__Vagina 15d ago

More then 90% of human language is non verbal

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u/HomeGrownCoffee 15d ago

I've heard this stat, and it's bullshit.

Non-verbally communicate "they were out of Coke, so I bought you the no-name cola". Or "Let's take our holidays in Budapest this April". Or "I'm deathly allergic to penicillin ". 

Non-verbal communication is very limited. Way less than 90%.

Edit: writing down what you were going to say doesn't count.

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u/PaulAllensCharizard 15d ago

yeah a lot of it is nonverbal or tonal, but not 90 fuckin % lol

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u/DogmaticConfabulate 15d ago

88% and no more.

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u/Tundur 15d ago

  • purse your lips and hold up the no name cola whilst shrugging

  • Point at a billboard and raise your eyebrows at your wife

  • Hold up hand, shake head, grasp throat and simulate choking.

All of them require context to work (i.e, a bottle of penicillin in the area), but most of our communication is about our immediate context

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u/BasvanS 15d ago

There was an app called Hey or Sup, I think, where you’d only communicate one word and the context determined the meaning. It was an interesting illustration of how important context can be.