Animal Intelligence

While it would be keen of me to actually post some more animal intelligence news — I have ten browser tabs open, each with a different AI story — I’ve taken the liberty of sprucing things up around here instead. The original blog template was a makeshift thing, thrown together on the spur of the [...]

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Nicole sent me another story, this one from last spring. It seems that an Israeli man made the mistake of moving a baby crow that had fallen from its nest. This made the chick’s mother angry, and she’s been terrorizing him ever since:

Badash’s nightmare began after a crow’s chick fell out of its nest into [...]

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UC Berkeley offers a number of its courses available online for free download via the iTunes Music Store. One of these courses is IB 31: Animal Behavior taught by Roy Caldwell.
This course, which is provided as a podcast, features lectures with titles such as:

Behavioral Genetics
Is Personality Heritable?
Social Insects
Sexual Selection
Parent-Offspring Interactions
Communication: Do Animals Tell Lies?
Interspecific Communication [...]

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I’m back from vacation, and have just posted the following as this site’s “about” page.
This is a weblog about animal intelligence. Its premise is that the birds and beasts are smarter than most people credit, that they’re capable of leading rich emotional lives.
I do not believe that animals possess human intelligence. That is not [...]

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Nine days into this blog and I’m already taking a vacation? Sad but true. I’m off to San Francisco for ten days. I’ll be back with more tales of smart animals on the 21st.

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