I'm always fascinated by studies of other animals intelligence. Why are humans such extreme environment modifiers whilst other not-as-intelligent-but-not-dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks animals barely intentionally modify their environment at all?
Richard Byrne and Anna Smet of the University of St. Andrews tested 11 African elephants on what’s known as the object-choice task. In this task, a food reward is hidden in one of several containers and the experimenter signals which one by pointing to it.
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What’s so remarkable about the elephants’ success on the object-choice task is that they did it spontaneously. Byrne says that in studies of other species, the animals have had the opportunity to learn the task.
Elephants Get the Point – Wired Science
Originally posted on Google+ · October 14, 2013
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