It’s not often that a piece of animal intelligence news gets wide exposure, but one Associated Press report is doing just that. Andrew Bridges writes that elephants show self-awareness when looking in a mirror.
In a 2005 experiment, Happy [a 34-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo] faced her reflection in an 8-by-8-foot mirror [...]
Tags: Research
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Here’s a video from Japanese television in which a chimp (?) plays Ms. Pac-Man.
I wish I could understand what the narrator is saying. I think it would add a great deal of meaning. It’s clear that the researchers are [...]
In a previous entry I wrote:
As much as I believe animals possess profound intelligence, I don’t quite extend this to fish. By all reports, fish are pretty dumb.
Canaduck commented:
There is plenty of evidence that many fish are fairly intelligent. Here’s a whole set of links discussing the matter.
This set of links resides at a site [...]
Tags: Research
In May 2001, the Medford (OR) Mail Tribune reported on an unlikely friendship between a fish and a dog.
Here’s lookin’ at you, fish
by JONEL ALECCIA
This is the story of a fish named Falstaff and Chino, the dog who loved him. The two met three years ago, when Chino’s owners, Dan and Mary Heath, traded Portland [...]
Tags: Interspecies