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M.D. Holloway 03-23-2013 11:16 AM
The Brains of Animals - Research Shows they are smarter than we thought
 
The Brains of the Animal Kingdom - WSJ.com

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New research shows that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence. . .
Interesting read

matt f 03-23-2013 11:55 AM
Watched a program about intelligence of crows a couple weeks ago.
Extremely informative and interesting.
Damn smart birds.
I believe it was out of one of the Universities of the PNW.

s_morrison57 03-23-2013 01:08 PM
That's not really surprising, I've known and shared space with some damn smart dogs in my time, scary smart how they read and feel different situations sometimes.

RWebb 03-23-2013 01:17 PM
John Marzluff - former student of Russ Balda - is at UW (Forestry) - he works on crows

Balda is/was at NAU (worked on spatial memory in Jays)

also go to youtube and search on parrot + Alex

jwgn777 03-23-2013 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by matt f (Post 7346460)
Watched a program about intelligence of crows a couple weeks ago.
Extremely informative and interesting.
Damn smart birds.
I believe it was out of one of the Universities of the PNW.
Was that the program where they tied food at the end of a string hanging from a bar and the Raven or Crow was able to pull the string up with its beak while holding each length of string he pulled with his foot or talon until the food had reach him? The bird actually open a door with a functioning lock. More intelligent than some humans. LOL;)

matt f 03-23-2013 07:55 PM
I believe that was part of the same show.
Mainly about facial recognition of humans and caching food.

matt f 03-23-2013 08:04 PM
The program is NATURE'S "A Murder of Crows."
John Marzluff is the researcher.

M.D. Holloway 03-23-2013 08:39 PM
My Choco Lab can read my mind, I swear to God that Dog can read my mind!

M.D. Holloway 03-23-2013 08:42 PM
The octpus facts are pretty amazing. It would make sense that when we find life on another planet it will prolly be a cephalopod type animal or an insect...


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