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It seems really weird to assume that rats don't have linguistic skills given everything we've been learning recently about non-human communication, coupled with the fact that they're extremely social and will not stop chattering away about who knows what. I think a more solitary animal would be better suited to indicating that language and categorization skills may be unrelated, which is unfortunate because they're much harder to work with.