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Quite an interesting article on the National Geographic website, it's quite long (8 pages) but still really interesting. It's amazing how we're still learning so much about animal behaviour, I guess because for a long time it wasn't really accepted that they could be smart and think for themselves, like people could.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...-morell-text/1
It should be common sense that animals can think for themselves, otherwise they wouldn't be able to recognize their owners, play, socialize, exc...
Interesting article, though.
Ah, I was learning about that parrot early last year in an Animal Behaviour lecture :cheese:
Pity the rest of the module still makes out that animals are automatons, just reactors to stimuli. /sigh
animals are hell lot of smarter then we are...they dont destroy the planet,they do no un-nececary killing "etc etc" the only thing we are better with in animals is that we are " Smarter" but they arnt the one destrying the planet