The Brains of Animals - Research Shows they are smarter than we thought

[M.D. Holloway]

The Brains of the Animal Kingdom - WSJ.com

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

Interesting read

[matt f]

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by matt f

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]

I believe that was part of the same show.
Mainly about facial recognition of humans and caching food.

[matt f]

The program is NATURE'S "A Murder of Crows."
John Marzluff is the researcher.

[M.D. Holloway]

My Choco Lab can read my mind, I swear to God that Dog can read my mind!

[M.D. Holloway]

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...