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Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought (www.newscientist.com)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

All this recent news about animal psychology has made me wonder what the fuck science has been examining in animals for the past entire time humans have existed, that it's only now they are thinking this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm older than most probably are on here, but not that old. I desperately wanted to get into animal behavioral science for higher education, but the prevailing thoughts at the time were that most animals are devoid of emotions. Negative reactions were chalked up to a pain response, and anything else was deemed anthropomorphism. I really wish I would have pushed anyway, because we have learned and accepted so much since then.

I would have loved to be involved in discoveries like we have read about in the last ten years. Follow your dreams, kids. Things can change faster than you think.

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