Animal Minds

Animals are smarter than you think.

Many of Alex's cognitive skills, such as his ability to understand the concepts of same and different, are generally ascribed only to higher mammals, particularly primates. But parrots, like great apes (and humans), live a long time in complex societies. And like primates, these birds must keep track of the dynamics of changing relationships and environments. Full Story »

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Nancy Scott
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by Nancy Scott - Oct. 1, 2008

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.

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