Crows can 'reason' about causes, a recent study
18 September 2012, BBC
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| If I only had a brain... |
Time and again, I can't help but think it is us who are more animal than we think. Even our thinking is a product of evolution. We don't make the decisions; ours is to produce variety. Something else makes the decisions, something else calls the mind rational. Perhaps crows do understand. If so, then, we do not.
clipped article:
Tool-making crows have the ability to "reason",
say scientists.
In an experiment, researchers found that crows were more
likely to forage when they could attribute changes in their environment to a
human presence.
This behaviour may suggest "complex cognition", according to a study published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study is the first to suggest that animals have the
ability to make reasoned inferences, although scientists added that the phenomenon could be more common among
animals than previously thought.
Joshua Klein: The
intelligence of crows
FILMED MAR 2008 • POSTED MAY 2008 • TED2008
Watch him explain how
he taught crows to recycle, as well as pickpocket
http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
Dogs understand human
perspective, say researchers
Sean Coughlan, 11
February 2013
They found dogs were four times more likely to steal food
they had been forbidden, when lights were turned off so humans in the room
could not see.
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