With all my brains and all my tools I can't catch mice 1/10th as well as my cat can.
robert luis rabello wrote: >Keith Addison wrote: > > > > >>The video's at the top right. >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2178920.stm >>BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Crows prove they are no birdbrains >>"Experiments show the humble bird is better than the chimp at toolmaking." >> >> > > This doesn't surprise me. I've seen a crow take a hazelnut onto the >road, place it in front of my tires, then hop off the road and wait >until I passed by. In the rearview mirror, I watched that bird hop >back out and devour the hazelnut I'd crushed as I ran over it. Crows >are a LOT smarter than people think! > > Then, there's my domestic cat, Destiny. She is able to open a >sliding screen door. Yesterday, she wanted to get into a closet with >an accordion style door. I watched her experiment as she slid her paw >under one side and pulled, working her way from the end toward the >middle. Once she realized that she could loosen the door by pulling >from the middle, she returned to the end and simply pushed it open. >There's an example of multi step problem solving in what most of us >would consider a stupid feline. > > Animals aren't dumb. Their intelligence isn't language based, like >ours is, so it's hard for us to understand them. They comprehend some >of our words and are highly skilled at interpreting our body language, >but when my cat Liberty struts up and meows at me, I sometimes wonder >if he's thinking: "You STUPID human, can't you figure out what I want?" > > >robert luis rabello >"The Edge of Justice" >Adventure for Your Mind >http://www.newadventure.ca > >Ranger Supercharger Project Page >http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
