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?
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