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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

It's also just wrong, because quite a lot of mammals and birds use sound for intraspecies communication (a la human language), echolocation is fairly common, feeding and hunting often generate sound... Sound production for mating purposes is a hefty chunk, but the joke here is pretty misleading.