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Aristotle, in his biology, hypothesized a causal chain where an animal's sense organs transmitted information to an organ capable of making decisions, and then to a motor organ. Despite Aristotle's cardiocentrism (mistaken belief that cognition occurred in the heart), this approached some modern understandings of information processing. [10] Jaakkola K, Fellner W, Erb L, Rodriguez M, Guarino E (August 2005). "Understanding of the concept of numerically "less" by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 119 (3): 296–303. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.119.3.296. PMID 16131258. Stebbins WC, Berkley MA (1990). Comparative Perception, Vol. I, Basic Mechanisms; Vol. II, Complex Signals. New York: Wiley. The novel object recognition (NOR) test is an animal behavior test that is primarily used to assess memory alterations in rodents. It is a simple behavioral test that is based on a rodents innate exploratory behavior. The test is divided into three phases: habituation, training/adaptation and test phase. During the habituation phase the animal is placed in an empty test arena. This is followed by the adaptation phase, where the animal is placed in the arena with two identical objects. In the third phase, the test phase, the animal is placed in the arena with one of the familiar objects from the previous phase and with one novel object. Based on the rodents innate curiosity, the animals that remember the familiar object will spend more time on investigating the novel object. [69] Spatial cognition [ edit ] Still, in light of the gruesome devastation that fills the city, never mind pressing questions of food and fresh water, it all feels a bit self-indulgent and Fuller’s insights into motive and meaning are too thin.

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There are numerous examples of dogs who have found their way home after being away for a long time. This takes good memory skills and dogs are certainly among the most intelligent creatures in the animal kingdom. Monkeys Unless the events in question have any importance related to food or survival the animals could not remember what happened. They seem to only remember casual events when it’s related to basic survival. Blough DS (2006). "Reaction-time explorations of visual attention, perception, and decision in pigeons.". In Wasserman EA, Zentall TR (eds.). Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence' . New York: Oxford University Press. pp.89–105.Uller C, Jaeger R, Guidry G, Martin C (June 2003). "Salamanders ( Plethodon cinereus) go for more: rudiments of number in an amphibian". Animal Cognition. 6 (2): 105–12. doi: 10.1007/s10071-003-0167-x. PMID 12709845. S2CID 147018. Greggers U, Menzel R (1993). "Memory dynamics and foraging strategies of honeybees". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 32: 17–29. doi: 10.1007/BF00172219. S2CID 36624838. Henderson J, Hurly TA, Bateson M, Healy SD (March 2006). "Timing in free-living rufous hummingbirds, Selasphorus rufus". Current Biology. 16 (5): 512–5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.01.054. PMID 16527747. Grandin T, Johnson C (January 2010). Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In other words, Morgan believed that anthropomorphic approaches to animal behavior were fallacious, and that people should only consider behaviour as, for example, rational, purposive or affectionate, if there is no other explanation in terms of the behaviours of more primitive life-forms to which we do not attribute those faculties.

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Krueger K, Heinze J (July 2008). "Horse sense: social status of horses (Equus caballus) affects their likelihood of copying other horses' behavior" (PDF). Animal Cognition. 11 (3): 431–9. doi: 10.1007/s10071-007-0133-0. PMID 18183432. S2CID 16621030.Möglich MH, Alpert GD (1979). "Stone dropping by Conomyrma bicolor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): A new technique of interference competition". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2 (6): 105–113. doi: 10.1007/bf00292556. JSTOR 4599265. S2CID 27266459. Brannon EM, Terrace HS (January 2000). "Representation of the numerosities 1-9 by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 26 (1): 31–49. doi: 10.1037/0097-7403.26.1.31. PMID 10650542. Haunting and unsettling, moving and thoughtful—with horror lurking at the edges—this is a subtle, elegant novel, an interesting and unusual take on the meaning of pandemic. Claire Fuller is a huge talent. Bräuer J, Kaminski J, Riedel J, Call J, Tomasello M (February 2006). "Making inferences about the location of hidden food: social dog, causal ape". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 120 (1): 38–47. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.120.1.38. PMID 16551163. S2CID 10162449.

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Ants are able to use quantitative values and transmit this information. [107] [108] For instance, ants of several species are able to estimate quite precisely numbers of encounters with members of other colonies on their feeding territories. [109] [110] Numeracy has been described in the yellow mealworm beetle ( Tenebrio molitor) [111] and the honeybee. [112] Dogs wouldn’t be good service dogs and able to assist police officers if they weren’t able to remember a whole bunch of stuff. They can also recognize their owners after a very long time. Plotwise there is double intrigue: the direness of the situation beyond the hospital walls, and an earlier mystery, involving Neffy and her father, that is revealed subtly and sensitively as the story unfolds. The superb ending ties everything together with a moving, tragic cohesiveness. The bleak twists and sudden shifts forward in time feel earned and in keeping with the world Fuller has created. As her caged animals make a bid for freedom, the reader will applaud their attempts to keep going against the likelihood of their endless numbered days. Sarah GilmartinBernardi G (2011). "The use of tools by wrasses (Labridae)". Coral Reefs. 31: 39. doi: 10.1007/s00338-011-0823-6. S2CID 37924172. Avarguès-Weber A, Dyer AG, Giurfa M (March 2011). "Conceptualization of above and below relationships by an insect". Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 278 (1707): 898–905. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1891. PMC 3049051. PMID 21068040.

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Dooling RJ, Okanoya K (1995). "Psychophysical methods for assessing perceptual categories.". In Klump GM, Dooling RJ, Fay RR, Stebbins WC (eds.). Methods in Comparative Psychoacoustics. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser Verlag. pp.307–318. For anyone who misses the analogy, Fuller spends the rest of the book ramming it home in a series of letters Neffy writes to – wait for it – an octopus, which she looked after in her past life as a marine biologist. Yes, you heard me correctly: ­epistles to a cephalopod. What the point of these missives is, though – other than an opportunity for some pretty purple prose and an excuse to bombard the reader with facts that read like they’ve been cribbed from Wikipedia – I’m not really sure. It looks suspiciously like padding. Menzel R (1993). "Associative learning in honey-bees". Apidologie. 24 (3): 157–168. doi: 10.1051/apido:19930301.a b Piero, Amodio (2020). "Bipedal locomotion in Octopus vulgaris: A complementary observation and some preliminary considerations". Ecology and Evolution. 11: 9. It is clear that animals of quite a range of species are capable of solving problems that appear to require abstract reasoning; [95] Wolfgang Köhler's (1917) work with chimpanzees is a famous early example. He observed that chimpanzees did not use trial and error to solve problems such as retrieving bananas hung out of reach. Instead, they behaved in a manner that was "unwaveringly purposeful," spontaneously placing boxes so that they could climb to reach the fruit. [22] Modern research has identified similar behavior in animals usually thought of as much less intelligent, if appropriate pre-training is given. [96] Causal reasoning has also been observed in rooks and New Caledonian crows. [97] [98] A variety of studies indicates that animals are able to use and communicate quantitative information, and that some can count in a rudimentary way. Some examples of this research follow.