Clever Creatures
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Is There a Problem With Animal Intelligence?
The most striking example of genius in birds is alex, the parrot who died ten or 15 years ago. Irene pepperburg had that parrot that it became very famous. And it could do all sorts of tests. Most other animals give em m, you know, an icu test. No, as in what we would consider to be, again, challenges of intelligence, we might change theye,. no, i think. That's one of the reasons why some groups of animals are a kind of lagging in our understanding of and our appreciation of their intelligence.
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