this is on-going news which will be even more important in the future as we learn more about what we usually describe as 'instinct' in animals (to include other creatures as well). and if the deductions from the experiments included here and elsewhere are correct (more scientific experiments need to occur and be correlated) it seems we humans have competition; perhaps in the future we will, if we don't perceive them as a threat, figure out how live cooperatively with them.

I wish I could have had this article back in the 1960's to show an ingorant English teacher who criticized my writing because I had other species thinking in my stories. The unfairness and ignorance of that teacher has continued to bother me because I knew she was totally wrong and my work was wrongly graded. It is humans who are lacking because, for the most part, we do not know how to even try to understand other species language.

Animal intelligence stories are always interesting. Such stories may help motivate a reverence for all life that will help prevent extinctions. This assumes man can learn and coordinate activities sufficiently to accomplish this task.

This is a well constructed multi-faceted scientific look and the mind of animals as compared to man in the realms of intelligence, memory and creativeness. As such, it is a fascinating & delightful story. It was well worth my time and I will also add it to my bookmarked del.icio.us stories.

Kind of sad, this poor bird was deprived from his freedom and the ability to being a bird, just to prove a point. Looking at many years of our own human history, I have come to the conclusion that we are inherently stupid!