Similar to humans, the lovely Japanese macaques may have cumulative culture, the ability to improve on others' invention, to stand on the shoulders of giants. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-017-0642-7 …pic.twitter.com/WFNz8YfANB
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Well, animals can't project their future. Immediate gain is the goal. So a tool is discarded once its immediate utility is reduced to zero. It's not saved for the future. But then so are most of us humans even in adult stage, and all of us humans in our childhood. 1/2
How do we get a thing out of toddler's hands? By giving it another thing! Child takes interest in the new thing and tries to get it, forgetting and giving up the one in hand howsoever useful it may be. So in early stages we are no better than animals at least in this respect. 2/2
If you were a caged animal, your need once fed might be for relief of boredom. Kids do quite a lot of stuff like that! Sometimes I wish I were blind to the future. Especially nowadays!
Seems likely to me that only the squirrel's *genes* have "knowledge of the future," and the squirrel itself is just following its programming. Future-oriented behavior does not necessarily imply that one is conscious of the future.
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