Apparently crows can understand the concept of ”zero” Behavioral and Neuronal Representation of Numerosity Zero in the Crow - Journal of Neuroscience. Fascinating, I wonder what else animals can do we now think is beyond their capabilities?
@tkoola I'm 66 now. When I was a kid animals were pretty much uniformly represented as 'dumb'. Over my lifetime there have been so many revelations of 'gasp' animals can do this thing… I bet they can do a whole lot more yet as we gradually drop our biases and humans-are-superior approach.
@tkoola I adore crows! Our local university has a group of researchers studying them. In case you hadn’t seen it, here’s a crow snowboarding on a roof. They’re so clever.
@Miraz I was talking exactly about this with my spouse and I remember so many categorical announcements about animals and humans especially w/re abstract thought and language that has changed since I was a kid in school 40 years ago