imo what makes humans different from animals is much less ability to reason out problems and more ability to synthesize across time - remember chimps beat us at some logic games https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chimps-outplay-humans-in-brain-games1/ …
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Why haven’t deer gotten good at juking cars yet? Seems like a selection pressure
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Meanwhile crows have figured out traffic lights
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One would think it was inevitable, at the very least in terms of migratory patterns and such. Or else they face extinction. Like 20 years ago my whole town was forest. Now I have a deer outside my office window and last year a whole ass turkey walked through the parking lot.
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Some bears in Yosemite knock campers' plastic bear vaults around like Cruz Azul until the containers go off a cliff and break open.pic.twitter.com/7H9cSVtgGj
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Yes it has. There a lot of stray monkeys in India that hang around temples. They know that fruits are kept as offerings. They're conditioned by the temple bells and know when there are gatherings. There are monkeys who also sneak into houses and raid refrigerators for milk.
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I tried chatting about Hegelian dialectic with the possum living in a fallen tree behind the backyard fence, and got only hiss, glare. Appropriate response, IMO, valid critique. So maybe.
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Town mouse and country mouse is real. City -> big brain https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2013.1384 … Even within Manhattan, there are genetic differences between Central Park rats and urban rats https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.0245 … https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/04/29/the-evolution-of-the-country-mouse-and-the-city-mouse/ … https://www.wired.com/2013/08/urban-animal-brain-behavior-evolution/ …https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.12258 …
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