How Smart Are Animals? Our Tests May All Be Wrong…
The way animals think and communicate is a mystery, but science is working on changing that. Here's what we know so far. After a Decade of Colony Collapse, ...
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You may have formed an impression of how animals think and feel from Disney Movies or documentaries, but the reality is startlingly different. A new study has shown that sheep can recognize human faces in photos, and can even recognize their owner -- because that’s who the sheep are personally familiar with on a day-to-day basis. And, despite having watched ‘Babe’ many times as a child, I never thought sheep were that smart, so this study made me feel pretty sheepish! In all seriousness, the internal lives of animals are relatively shrouded in mystery. The fields of animal behavior and animal cognition have animals perform certain tests to quantify levels of animal logic, reason, and emotion. For example, in corvids, the bird family that includes ravens and crows... they’ve found ...
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You may have formed an impression of how animals think and feel from Disney Movies or documentaries, but the reality is startlingly different. A new study has shown that sheep can recognize human faces in photos, and can even recognize their owner -- because that’s who the sheep are personally familiar with on a day-to-day basis. And, despite having watched ‘Babe’ many times as a child, I never thought sheep were that smart, so this study made me feel pretty sheepish! In all seriousness, the internal lives of animals are relatively shrouded in mystery. The fields of animal behavior and animal cognition have animals perform certain tests to quantify levels of animal logic, reason, and emotion. For example, in corvids, the bird family that includes ravens and crows... they’ve found ...
