#animalcognition
Slow progress, but progress (and I’m delighted that Chomsky is on board with this!).
#AnimalCognition
“The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? | Science”
Unexpected Animals That Use Tools
You know about chimps and crows, but how about crocodiles?
#AnimalCognition
https://gizmodo.com/6-unexpected-animals-that-use-tools-1848546719
The finding now allows for new theories about snake sex - which could involve female stimulation and pleasure.
Until now, scientists believed snake sex was "mostly about coercion and the male snake forcing the mating," says Ms Folwell.
This was because male snakes were typically quite physically aggressive during mating while the female was more "placid".
"But now with the finding of the clitoris we can start looking more towards seduction and stimulation as another form of the female being more willing and likely to populate with the male," she said.
TIL: #anthropodenial
Frans de Waal has studied the behavior of primates for five decades. Some of his many important observations center around the evolution of morality and just how much we have in common with the animal kingdom.
The idea that animals are always in conflict with one another and competing for resources is “totally wrong,” de Waal says.
Other primates, specifically chimpanzees and bonobos, have demonstrated a range of traits and tendencies typically regarded as human, including empathy, friendship, reconciliation, altruism, and even adoption.
