"In their way. It took a little while to figure out the signals they were sending were, in fact, a language, and we managed a sort of rudimentary exchange with them, but it was more than enough to declare them - the entire planet - sentient," he nodded. "It's not quite a hive mind, but there's an interconnectivity that doesn't exist on any known spectrum. They both seem to think faster as a group, but act much more slowly since they have no natural predators on their own planet."