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Animal minds Intelligent Design News

How to tell a bee to shut up without getting stung

Interesting example of a collective thought process that works like an individual one.

Posted on December 13, 2011 Author O'Leary Comment(0)
Animal minds News

More chimps who could teach us all a lesson in caring and sharing …

The fact is, if you pay attention to any animals long enough they will sometimes act in ways you don’t expect.

Posted on December 12, 2011 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds News

Rats are not only people too, but they’re nicer people …

One wonders what the judgment will be on the many dumpster rats who didn’t show empathy when last noticed? Are they morally culpable?

Posted on December 12, 2011 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds Intelligent Design News

Intelligence studies too focused on apes, ravens are smart in the same ways

Why are chimpanzees supposed to be so intelligent when species of birds often rival them in cognitive ability?

Posted on November 29, 2011 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds Human evolution language Media News

The secret to good science writing today is never to ask the obvious questions …

If chimp handwaving is the origin of language, why didn’t hand-waving baby chimps go on to learn one? Why do human infants learn a language even if they are born without hands?

Posted on November 13, 2011November 13, 2011 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds News

Surprise, surprise: Children like to work together but chimps don’t

Compare this with recent claims that orangutans have culture. The reason orangutans don‘t have culture is precisely stuff like this.

Posted on October 31, 2011 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds News

Orangutans have culture too, it is claimed

There is probably about as much difference between the behaviour of urban and rural squirrels, that offspring learn from their dams, but you wouldn’t get away with calling it culture.

Posted on October 30, 2011October 30, 2011 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds News

Some life forms can be scared to death

Even if they are not at risk.

Posted on October 28, 2011 Author News Comments(2)
Animal minds News

Animal minds: Do wolves need to be smart? – a computer model

The modellers seem to overlook the fact that intelligence is mostly required for the pack’s day-to-day life together.

Posted on October 27, 2011 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds Intelligent Design News

Almost infinite bacterial conversations affect climate change?

“I think it’s amazing that there are a near-infinite number of these conversations going on in the ocean right now, and they are affecting Earth’s carbon cycle.”

Posted on October 17, 2011October 17, 2011 Author News Comment(1)
Animal minds Darwinism News

Nazca boobies studied to help explain child abuse

Because the attacks by unrelated adults are similar to the sibling attacks, there may be a “maladaptive side effect” of something that makes evolutionary sense …

Posted on October 12, 2011October 12, 2011 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds News

Humans lost sixth sense? Some animals kept it?

People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense.

Posted on October 11, 2011October 11, 2011 Author News Comments(6)
Animal minds Intelligent Design News

The amoeba is one cell of a guy – especially when a bunch of them get together

(It could get testy if they needed a Parliament … )

Posted on October 5, 2011October 5, 2011 Author News Comments(2)
Animal minds Intelligent Design News

From the Animals ‘r just like us desk: Fish uses tools?

Smashing something against a rock is enterprising, but does not constitute using a tool.

Posted on September 29, 2011September 30, 2011 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds Intelligent Design News

Lizard brain debunked: Some lizards are as smart as some birds, but we have a hard time finding out because …

What if it turns out that some lizards are curious and prefer solving problems for a reward to sitting motionless in a terrarium until someone tosses a cricket in?

Posted on September 26, 2011September 26, 2011 Author News Comment(0)

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