#animal intelligence

[humblegrub]

honestly, the things that insects are capable of will never cease to amaze me

#bugs #bugblr #insects #insect #entomology #bug #found elsewhere and uploaded by me #tiktok #bee #bees #animal intelligence #invertebrate intelligence

[acti-veg]

“Mice, rats and many other rodents do indeed make a wide repertoire of ‘ultrasonic’ calls, with frequencies too high to be audible to humans (…)

Male mice that sniff female hormones produce ultrasonic songs that are remarkably similar to birds, complete with distinctive syllables and phrases. Females attracted to these serenades join their chosen partners in an ultrasonic duet.

Rodents are among the most common and intensively studied animals in the world and have been fixtures of laboratories since the seventeenth century. All that time, they’ve been spiritedly talking to each other without any human realising, exchanging messages that slipped beneath the senses of the oblivious researchers and technicians milling around them.”

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

#quotes #animals #animal intelligence #excerpts

[typhlonectes]

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare

A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.

In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive, fuzzy creatures were engaging in activity that could only be described as play. Given small wooden balls, the bees pushed them around and rotated them. The behavior had no obvious connection to mating or survival, nor was it rewarded by the scientists. It was, apparently, just for fun. The study on playful bees is part of a body of research that a group of prominent scholars of animal minds cited today, buttressing a new declaration that extends scientific support for consciousness to a wider suite of animals than has been formally acknowledged before. For decades, there’s been a broad agreement among scientists that animals similar to us — the great apes, for example —  have conscious experience, even if their consciousness differs from our own. In recent years, however, researchers have begun to acknowledge that consciousness may also be widespread among animals that are very different from us, including invertebrates with completely different and far simpler nervous systems...

Read more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/insects-and-other-animals-have-consciousness-experts-declare-20240419

#philosophy #science #animal intelligence #animal minds #animals #nature #animal welfare #vegan #vegetarian #politics #animal emotions

[reality-detective]

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#pay attention #educate yourself #educate yourselves #reeducate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourselves #think for yourself #think for yourselves #think about it #do your homework #news interruption #horse #animal intelligence

[danskjavlarna]

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Animal intelligence: vintage reading and talking creatures.

#gerbil #smart animal #animal intelligence #vintage illustration #illustration

[mindblowingscience]

Individual innovation is considered one sign of intelligence within species, and elephants are among the animals that researchers have long taken an interest in because of their sophisticated approach to problem solving. A newly published study in the journal Animal Behaviour details findings from a six-month-long study documenting the abilities of individual wild Asian elephants to access food by solving puzzles that unlocked storage boxes. "This is the first research study to show that individual wild elephants have different willingness and abilities to problem solve in order to get food," said the study's lead author Sarah Jacobson, a psychology doctoral candidate studying animal cognition at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College. "This is important knowledge, because how animals think and innovate may influence their ability to survive in environments that are rapidly changing due to human presence."

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#Science #Biology #animal intelligence #elephants #asian elephant #stem

[eisenvulcanstein]

For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic – Ars Technica

#corvids #crows #ravens #animal intelligence

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

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They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

#cat #animal intelligence #vintage photo #1960s #talking animal #talking cat #photo

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Was off work the other day just relaxing and reading in bed when I heard distressed crow noises. Looked out my window and three crows were out there, one was laying on the ground on its back, wings spread and another was just kind of observing while the third was cawing and jumping around and pecking every now and then at the one laying on the ground. I grabbed my glasses to get a better look bc I was like “oh no! Are they injured?” Was putting my clothes on to go out and check it out to see if it needed me to call like a wildlife rehab when the one that was jumping around and pecking suddenly went onto its back on the ground. The one that was chilling started hopping around them. Then some kids started walking by to the playground back there and all three got up and flew away. It was just cool bc I’ve seen videos of crows playing but never saw it in person. It was also a hot day and the spot they were in was a dirt spot in thats shades most of the day. I wonder if they were just having fun having a dirt bath to cool down.

Most likely! Corvids regularly do lots of clever things to maintain a comfortable body temperature, much like we humans do. And a dust bath is an excellent way to get cool!

#corvids #dinosaurs #birds #animal intelligence

[geekysteven]

Feeding crows is better than feeding pigeons, because crows can remember and describe human faces, so the species may decide to spare you when the revolution comes

#corvid #crows #animal intelligence #Cool birds

[silvermoon424]

I was just reading the Wiki article on "Emotions in Animals" and apparently some scientists deadass oppose the notion that animals can feel things??

The only argument I get is "we shouldn't anthropomorphize animals because it could lead to harm; they do experience their own emotions but they're likely different than the way humans experience them." But outright saying "nah, only humans can be happy or sad and have intelligence" is so fucking arrogant. Literally no different than 17th-century Catholics who believed that only humans were deemed worthy enough by God to feel things.

"those who do not believe in the idea of animal intelligence" my brother in Christ tool use has been documented in a wide variety of species

#animals #animal intelligence #spend 5 fucking minutes with a dog and you'll eat your words my guy

[auntbibby]

i have a question about cat comprehension (and this probly applies to other pets too)

if pets like BilliSpeaks can comprehend human language when spoken outloud, (shown by when they respond in the same language via button-pressing)……

do ALL cats comprehend spoken human language from their owners, and most just cant demonstrate it cuz they dont have buttons?

i know sometimes dogs react behaviorally to the word “walk”!!

do most pets straight-up comprehend full sentences?????

#cats #dogs #fluentpet #hextiles #aac #aac device #talking dogs #talking cats #animal intelligence #augmentative and alternative communication #animal comprehension #cat intelligence #dog intelligence #animal language #billispeaks #whataboutbunny #science #neurology #language #linguistics #noam chomsky #syntax

[acti-veg]

“Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights by squirting jets of water at the bulbs when no one is watching, and short-circuiting the power supply. At the University of Otago in New Zealand, this became so expensive that the octopuses had to be released back into the wild.”

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds

#quotes #octopuses #animal intelligence

[typhlonectes]

These Parrots Won’t Stop Swearing. Will They Learn to Behave—or Corrupt the Entire Flock?

A British zoo hopes the good manners of a larger group will rub off on the eight misbehaving birds

A few years ago, a zoo in Britain went viral for its five foul-mouthed parrots that wouldn’t stop swearing. Now, three more birds at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park have developed the same bad habit—and zoo staffers have devised a risky plan to curb their bad behavior. “We’ve put eight really, really offensive, swearing parrots with 92 non-swearing ones,” Steve Nichols, the park’s chief executive, tells CNN’s Issy Ronald...

#parrot #zoos #bird #ornithology #animal behavior #animal communication #nature #animal intelligence #science

[bishopsbox]

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Crows are very intelligent animals.

Los cuervos son animales muy inteligentes.

#crows #animal intelligence #animals #crow bottle #smart

[danskjavlarna]

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I have some rather fun vintage bear imagery collected here.

#bear #anthropomorphism #numbers #animal intelligence #smart animal #vintage illustration #illustration