Crows are even smarter than we thought
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#2Neat!
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#3I don’t know why these things are surprising.
To me, the assumption that animals can’t do things we later discovered they could do is the surprising thing. Such arrogance we humans have.
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#4I don’t know why these things are surprising. To me, the assumption that animals can’t do things we later discovered they could do is the surprising thing. Such arrogance we humans have.
Because they have such little brains. When I look at a crow, I think - not much room for brains in there.
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#5I don’t know why these things are surprising. To me, the assumption that animals can’t do things we later discovered they could do is the surprising thing. Such arrogance we humans have.
Earth isn’t the center of the universe, either. Our arrogance goes way back :)
I think our arrogance is also part of why we succeed as a species.
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#6Apparently you can scare a few of them like crazy from your land and they will tell their bros to stay away.
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#7Sometimes I wonder whether we're being watched by a super intelligent species beyond our current detection that occasionally places objects in certain configurations in front of the smarter of our species throughout history, and writes articles based on their observations titled things like, "homo sapiens smarter than previously known: demonstrates understanding of unified theory of electromagnetic waves through RF send/receive devices"
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#8The imprinting seems like a drawback if it can't be changed in new environments.
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#9I don’t know why these things are surprising. To me, the assumption that animals can’t do things we later discovered they could do is the surprising thing. Such arrogance we humans have.
I think it is at least a bit surprising. There is clearly something different between humans and all other animals.
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#10> Researchers have not yet determined whether mental templates related to tool making remain flexible
This quote shows the arrogance mentioned in one of the other comments. A 15 year old crow is somehow going to make a "mental template" that is then as firmly entrenched as a young bird learning the wrong mating song? Nah....