Super Smart Animals

[ketamine]

Cracked > David Attenbourough

[DRTY]

this is fucking awesome.

[particle-jim]

Cracked > David Attenbourough

this... also Liz Bonnin is fit

that is all i have to contribute

[kay]

Missed it , forgot about it

There was that episode of Most Unbelievable Things (or whatever it was called, was on BBC a few weeks ago) where they showed crows in Japan dropping hard-shelled nuts on to roads to get cars to crack 'em, and then showing how they took it to the next level by dropping the nuts on zebra crossings so that they could safely get to the nuts when people were crossing the road.

Anyway, I continue to believe that humans aren't actually as smart (or more intelligent than mere animals anyway) as the vast majority believe they are. We simply apply our animal intelligence in different ways. The average daily activities for the average person aren't actually all that different in principle from that of one of our animal cousins. Our drives, in general, don't seem too different either.

[James Kofi]

The average daily activities for the average person aren't actually all that different in principle from that of one of our animal cousins.

speak for yourself

[_ronzlo_]

[rockonin]

^ Smart as fark.

[SignalRecon]

some sub-standard Newsround wannabe.

Slightly unfair!

...has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from [Trinity College Dublin][2] and also holds a master's in Wild Animal Biology from the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Veterinary College (2008), for which she tracked tigers in Nepal.[3][4] She continues to work on big cat conservation programmes at the Zoological Society.

And?

Wasn't questioning her qualifications, just saying that she came across as amateurish in terms of presenting.

Dont mean to interrupt, just a side note, with those qualifications she prob has at least 2k follows on SC. Carry on.

[_ronzlo_]

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/ ... 2/20141370

tl;dr - we've been assuming animal communication to be highly limited based on statistical assumptions that are now being challenged.

[test_recordings]

Up until Western science has been driven by the assumption that only humans think, everything else is dumb and mindless. It's still the dominant paradigm but I reckon it's going to be overturned in the not-so-far-future....