DailyDirt: Gee, Brain, What Do You Want To Do Tonight?
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Maybe animals are getting smarter. We've covered how some monkeys have figured out how to take pictures of themselves, and we're learning more interesting things about animal behavior all the time. Here are a few more interesting discoveries that could bring us some damn dirty apes.. and fish and bees and lizards.- There's mounting evidence that fish might be able to use tools. So someday a fish might need a bicycle, like a woman needs a man... [url]
- Bumblebees tackle the traveling salesman problem all the time and seem to get pretty good solutions -- perhaps using some of the same tricks that humans use to try to find optimal solutions. Hmm. Do educated fleas do this kind of thing, too? [url]
- Lizards from Puerto Rico have passed a cognitive test that was designed for birds. Yoda was right about some advanced cognitive skills: "You must unlearn what you have learned." [url]
- To discover more interesting biological curiosities, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Filed Under: bumblebees, fish, lizards, monkeys, tools, traveling salesman
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Really Ho?
and mermaids will rule the world
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Re: Really Ho?
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What would happen if another species started approaching human intelligence?
Will some people accept that we are not the only ones capable of reasoning? or will we try to erase those other species?
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HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
VISIBLE VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHX
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE
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Cephalopods Are Smart ...
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Re: Cephalopods Are Smart ...
http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
http://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)
But Jumbo Squids are just so cute.
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Re: I still think dolphins are smarter...
Let’s face it, in terms of animal intelligence, cetaceans are the liberal-arts majors of the animal world.
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Re: Re: I still think dolphins are smarter...
but humans are no smarter - since we occasionally get eaten by polar bears, tigers etc.
and remember the dolphins did escape the Vogons
so long and thanks for all the fish!
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We have just discovered anvils are not tools by studying fish!!!!! How cool is that?
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