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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. Here’s the idea.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. For example, they make three different types of tools from the long, barbed leaves of the screw pine tree.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Passenger Pigeons, for example. On the WCS web page, Ms. What happened to Thelma and Louise?

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