Long essay on Animal Minds
I don't visit this board often, but I came across this and thought you guys might enjoy.
http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21676961-inner-lives-animals-are-hard-study-there-evidence-they-may-be-lot-richer-science-once-thought
Thanks anon, very interesting article.
>>2027755
Thanks for the read OP, that was awesome.
I wonder if any similar studying has been done on insects, because the only ones I ever hear much about as far as intelligence or language goes is ants and bees.
Also curious about reptiles.
>In a famous experiment, Hal Markowitz, later director of the San Francisco zoo, trained Diana monkeys to get food by putting a token in a slot. When the oldest female could not get the hang of it, a younger unrelated male put her tokens in the slot for her and stood back to let her eat.
The feels...
>As long ago as 1959, Russell Church of Brown University set up a test which allowed laboratory rats in half of a cage to get food by pressing a lever. The lever also delivered an electric shock to rats in the other half of the cage. When the first group realized that, they stopped pressing the lever, depriving themselves of food
I don't understand why rats are so smart. Are there any other rodents as smart as them?
>>2028491
all invasive rodents are smart.
they wouldn't be as invasive if they weren't
>>2028500
Rabbits are smart?
>>2028513
yeah, rabbits are pretty smart.
>>2028513
Rabbits aren't rodents.
>>2028548
Well, I'm not very smart either. I always forget about lagomorphs.
Bumping for awesome read.
