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Adrianna TanBonobos are able to infer that a human is ignorant and then to offer help <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bonobos-can-tell-when-a-human-doesnt-know-something/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bonobos-can-tell-when-a-human-doesnt-know-something/</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Primates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Primates</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a>

Brandon KeimFun finding: Like dogs, cats quickly learn the meaning of words. (Many cat people will probably know this already. Or at least suspect it. But very cool to see it confirmed in this rigorous, empirical way.)<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-74006-2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-74006-2</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animalcognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalcognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>

Barbara J. KingThis is truly exciting-- revealing shared decision-making in hunting between octopuses and fishes. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5120912/octopuses-and-fish-hunt-enforce" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5120912/octopuses-and-fish-hunt-enforce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/octopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#octopus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animalcognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalcognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocean</a>

Barbara J. KingThe NY Declaration on Animal Consciousness, published last month, has been much in the media/ social media. Today, alongside colleagues at the animal-ethics non-profit PAN Works, I respond and ask for... more, and explicit commitment to stopping painful research on animals to determine consciousness. All the comments in this, our collective piece, bring up good points. <a href="https://panworks.medium.com/evaluating-the-ny-declaration-on-animal-consciousness-c0465593f235" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://panworks.medium.com/evaluating-the-ny-declaration-on-animal-consciousness-c0465593f235</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animalcognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalcognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#consciousness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/anthropoogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropoogy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zoology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethics</a>

SelfAwarePatterns<a href="https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nydeclaration/declaration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness</a> has been making a lot of headlines.The declaration itself has somewhat careful language in terms of what it’s asserting, <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/insects-and-other-animals-have-consciousness-experts-declare-20240419/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">but many of the headlines don’t</a>. The declaration is short, so it’s easy to quote in full.<blockquote>Which animals have the capacity for conscious experience? While much uncertainty remains, some points of wide agreement have emerged.First, there is strong scientific support for attributions of conscious experience to other mammals and to birds.Second, the empirical evidence indicates at least a realistic possibility of conscious experience in all vertebrates (including reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) and many invertebrates (including, at minimum, cephalopod mollusks, decapod crustaceans, and insects).Third, when there is a realistic possibility of conscious experience in an animal, it is irresponsible to ignore that possibility in decisions affecting that animal. We should consider welfare risks and use the evidence to inform our responses to these risks.<a href="https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nydeclaration/declaration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nydeclaration/declaration</a></blockquote>The ever growing list of signers on the declaration include people like Jonathan Birch, David Chalmers, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Simona Ginsburg, Eva Jablonka, Anil Seth, and others whose work I’ve highlighted over the years.Ironically, I think the declaration was released on the same day Daniel Dennett died, ironic because I’m sure Dennett would have questioned the premise of the statement. It seems to take as a sharp precise fact of the matter whether certain creatures are conscious. The Quanta writeup on this makes clear the authors are focused on phenomenal consciousness, the “what it’s like” aspect of consciousness, essentially the Cartesian Theater or movie notion I discussed in the prior post.To me, this highlights the problem with the concept. The idea is that a creature either has or doesn’t have this form of consciousness. Under this binary view, the consequences of getting it wrong are high, since it might cause us to mistreat animals we mistakenly classify as not conscious, or waste efforts on the welfare of creatures we mistakenly classify as conscious.However, letting go of this notion frees us up to consider the problem from a different perspective, an incrementalist one. To an incrementalist, it’s clear many of these creatures have some limited degrees of consciousness, while not having others. I’ve discussed the idea of <a href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/2021/01/03/hierarchy-of-consciousness-january-2021-edition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thinking in terms of functional hierarchies</a> of consciousness many times. A simple version might look like this:<ol><li>Automatic behavior (reflexes and fixed action patterns)</li><li>Body and environmental models</li><li>Causal models</li><li>Introspection</li></ol>Everything alive has 1, automatic behavior, but so do robotic systems. 2, body and environmental models, is implied by anything with distance senses (sight, hearing, smell), which would include any of the animals discussed in the declaration. It also implies bottom up reflexive attention since the system needs a mechanism to focus its reactions on. All of which dramatically expands the scope of what 1 is in reaction to. 3, causal models, is where some degree of reason and scenario predictions start to come into the picture. It can be thought of as increasing the scope of the reactions in time as well as space. It’s here where the reactions become subject to being overridden, based on what a system has learned. It’s also where I think top down controlled attention starts to come into the picture.4, introspection, is a system modeling aspects of its own processing in 1-3. At the simplest levels, it might provide added degrees of control. In humans, it enables symbolic thinking and communication and sharing of cognitive states in social contexts.A hierarchy of this type is admittedly an oversimplification. We could instead take these items and use them as dimensions, and talk in terms of how much of each a particular system has. Still an oversimplification but maybe more clearly recognizing the complexity involved. So many insects clearly have 1 and 2, but any evidence for 3 seems marginal and subject to interpretation. And there is none that I know for 4. Among invertebrates, only cephalopods (octopuses and similar species) show a strong degree of 3. Many fish do seem to have a little of 3, but from what I’ve read it’s fragmented glimmers compared to what we see in mammals and birds. When it comes to 4, there do seem to be limited degrees of metacognition in various mammals, such as dogs and rats, although the evidence again seems open to interpretation. It’s stronger in some monkeys and great apes, who seem able to assess the certitude of what they know in situations where treats of different desirability are on the line. All of which is very limited compared to humans.A key question for many might be when an organism is capable of pain and suffering. A lot here depends on what we mean by “pain” and “suffering”. If we mean adverse reactions, then we have it with 1, but then have to include plants and robots in our definition. If we mean a more sophisticated mental state, then I’m not sure it exists without some degree of 3, that is, when we have systems capable of utilizing the feeling.But that ties into a broader question: how do we know these organisms don’t have these feelings, or even self reflection, but just aren’t showing it in the way more intelligent creatures do? Strictly speaking, we don’t.However, this problem looks less pressing when we look at it from an evolutionary perspective. Building environmental, causal, or self models is expensive in terms of energy and development. For these capabilities to be naturally selected, they must provide some fitness benefit. Natural selection can’t select on internal mental states, only on capabilities that increase or decrease the organism’s ability to pass on its genes.In that sense, if nothing in an insect’s behavioral repertoire shows it making use of a feeling of pain, such as learning from it or flexible behavior related to it, if all we get is reflexive withdrawal and avoidance behavior, then there’s no reason for it to have evolved mechanisms we’d be tempted to label “pain”. I think this is why we can largely dismiss the idea of consciousness in plants; how would it increase their fitness levels?But, as always, it pays not to be dogmatic with any of this. Science is continually turning up new discoveries. And many scientists seem eager to demonstrate conscious capabilities in animals. I’m totally onboard with them trying, as long as we’re careful about how we interpret the evidence.In any case, I think an incremental view frees us from an either / or determination on whether to care for an animal’s welfare, to one more oriented around what considerations we should have for it. Under this view, we should care more about mammals and birds than fish, but that doesn’t mean we should completely disregard the welfare of those fish. And while I’ll always try to make it quick when killing insects in the house, I’m not going to be too concerned about their welfare beyond that.But maybe I’m missing something? Are there reasons to ascribe higher levels of consciousness to many of these animals that I’m overlooking?<a href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/2024/05/04/consciousness-must-be-adaptive/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://selfawarepatterns.com/2024/05/04/consciousness-must-be-adaptive/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/animal-cognition/" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/biology/" target="_blank">#Biology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/consciousness/" target="_blank">#Consciousness</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/evolution/" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/mind/" target="_blank">#Mind</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/philosophy/" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/philosophy-of-mind/" target="_blank">#PhilosophyOfMind</a>

Barbara J. KingWe know that great apes are super-smart, but, even so, wow: Wounded wild orangutan Rakus "repeatedly applied the liquid onto his cheek for seven minutes. Rakus then smeared the chewed leaves onto his wound until it was fully covered. He continued to feed on the plant for over 30 minutes... researchers saw no sign of infection and the wound closed within five days." <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/primates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#primates</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/orangutan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#orangutan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animalcognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalcognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zoology</a>

Joel SnyderI was reminded of some old studies by Toukhsati and Rickard on how rhythms can facilitate learning in young chickens, which have been mostly ignored over the years, probably because they were ahead of their time.But they seem especially relevant to those of us in music cognition who are increasingly interested in the neural mechanism of rhythm, beat, meter, and groove in both humans and non-human animals. Not to mention the health and education applications of music!<a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-01020-004" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-01020-004</a><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/rhythm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhythm</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/groove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#groove</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a>

Barbara J. KingI spent yesterday in shock and grief over the death of primatologist and animal-behavior scientist Frans de Waal, and that continues today. Here are only some of his books that revolutionized my thinking, research, and teaching about animal cognition and emotion. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FransDeWaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FransDeWaal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ethology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chimpanzees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chimpanzees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animalbehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalbehavior</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animalcognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalcognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

Rebecca NordquistA man who changed the way we look at animals, and allowed animal behaviour scientists to look at animals as richly emotional and much closer to humans than we care to admit. Rest in peace, Frans de Waal.<a href="https://news.emory.edu/features/2024/03/er_frans_de_waal_16-03-2024/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.emory.edu/features/2024/03/er_frans_de_waal_16-03-2024/index.html</a><a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/2513035-overleden-frans-de-waal-ontdekte-dat-we-niet-heel-anders-zijn-dan-apen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nos.nl/artikel/2513035-overleden-frans-de-waal-ontdekte-dat-we-niet-heel-anders-zijn-dan-apen</a><a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/FransDeWaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FransDeWaal</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/AnimalBehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehavior</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/AnimalBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehaviour</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a>

Barbara J. KingVery exciting new paper on bees! With discussion not only of social learning, but also of animal culture, including aspects of cumulative culture. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animalcognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalcognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropology</a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07126-4?fbclid=IwAR2_Jn4CivciEgM3os_HIFmhVqkbj3wlpHdVFGtFcuqVSUwN0rBxSTNhNYw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07126-4?fbclid=IwAR2_Jn4CivciEgM3os_HIFmhVqkbj3wlpHdVFGtFcuqVSUwN0rBxSTNhNYw</a>

earthlingThe Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey ParrotsCan a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says?This book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constituting one of the landmark experiments in modern comparative psychology.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreyParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreyParrots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlexStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlexStudies</a>

Bonobo3/3 Interests/Interessen• <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Tierkognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tierkognition</a>• <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Intactivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Intactivism</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/GenitalAutonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenitalAutonomy</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/GenitaleSelbstbestimmung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenitaleSelbstbestimmung</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/StopCircumcision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopCircumcision</a>• <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/GameOfGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameOfGo</a> aka <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Baduk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Baduk</a> aka <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Weiqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weiqi</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Go_Spiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Go_Spiel</a> (~7 Kyu [OGS])• <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Psychedelia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Psychedelia</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Ethnobotanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ethnobotanics</a>• <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macOS</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Prepress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prepress</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Premedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Premedia</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Druckvorstufe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Druckvorstufe</a>• <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a>• <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Psychology</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Psychologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Psychologie</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NLP</a> • <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Philosophie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophie</a>and many, many more / und viele viele mehr.<a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#left</a>-ish <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/linksgr%C3%BCnversifft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linksgrünversifft</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/vaccinated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccinated</a> 💉 <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/geimpft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geimpft</a>

Rebecca NordquistAlso, the running title is a bit misleading; it reads "Livestock surprise scientists with their complex, emotional minds"I don't think anyone who works with livestock- including scientists- is really surprised by their complex, emotional minds....<a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/FarmAnimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarmAnimals</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/AnimalBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehaviour</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/AnimalBehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehavior</a> <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-minds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-minds</a>

Rebecca NordquistVery excited to have contributed to this piece in Science on cognition in livestock; unfortunately behind a paywall :( but TLDR: farm animals are a lot smarter than people give them credit for, and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/@Goatsthatstare" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Goatsthatstare</a> and his colleagues at FBU do amazing work! <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/FarmAnimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarmAnimals</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/AnimalBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehaviour</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/AnimalBehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehavior</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cognition</a><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-minds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-minds</a>

Barbara J. KingI'm reading this book for the second time and it's amazingly good all over again: When Animals Dream by David M. Pena-Guzman. (Yes, that's my blurb on the back cover.) <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animalcognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalcognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dream</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animalrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/amreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amreading</a>

NickARJonesTo all <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Behaviour2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Behaviour2023</a> attendees studying fish cognition. The agenda for the methodology workshop is online - <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4ccfvz8j" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/4ccfvz8j</a> To help us with participant numbers, please sign up here - <a href="https://tinyurl.com/55zyejsf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/55zyejsf</a>. Or, email to register your interest. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fishsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fishsci</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/animalbehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalbehaviour</a>

Tea 🍵 💙🎶🌻Something just reminded me of the fascinating study that was done on <a href="https://c.im/tags/crows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crows</a> to see if they could recognize individual human faces (they could). This sentence in an NPR piece describing the study made me laugh:"A "caveman" mask, for example, designated a "dangerous" face while a mask of former Vice President Dick Cheney was "neutral.""<a href="https://c.im/tags/AnimalBehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehavior</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/corvids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corvids</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760666490/crows-are-they-scary-or-just-scary-smart" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760666490/crows-are-they-scary-or-just-scary-smart</a>

Bonobo3/3Interests/Interessen• <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Tierkognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tierkognition</a>• <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Intactivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Intactivism</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GenitalAutonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenitalAutonomy</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GenitaleSelbstbestimmung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenitaleSelbstbestimmung</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/StopCircumcision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopCircumcision</a>• <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GameOfGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameOfGo</a> aka <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Baduk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Baduk</a> aka <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Weiqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weiqi</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Go_Spiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Go_Spiel</a> (~7 Kyu [OGS])• <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Psychedelia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Psychedelia</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Ethnobotanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ethnobotanics</a>• <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macOS</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Prepress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prepress</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Premedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Premedia</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Druckvorstufe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Druckvorstufe</a>• <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a>• <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Psychology</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Psychologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Psychologie</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NLP</a> • <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Philosophie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophie</a>and many, many more / und viele viele mehr.<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#left</a>-ish <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/linksgr%C3%BCnversifft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linksgrünversifft</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/vaccinated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccinated</a> 💉 <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/geimpft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geimpft</a>

Brandon KeimPortrait of an elder sunfish from a colony I like to visit on summertime river swims …… plus some interests <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnimalBehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehavior</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnimalEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalEthics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnimalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalLaw</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnimalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnimalStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anthrozoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anthrozoology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConservationBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConservationBiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ecomodernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecomodernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnvironmentalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnvironmentalStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ethology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarineBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarineBiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MoreThanHuman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MoreThanHuman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Multispecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Multispecies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhilosophyOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhilosophyOfMind</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlantStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalEcology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalEcology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sustainability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vegan</a>

Comparative Cognition<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a> Hello! This account is shared by Valerie (Val) Kuhlmeier and Mary (Cella) Olmstead. We are faculty at Queen's University in Canada with interests in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalCognition</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AnimalBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehaviour</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AnimalBehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnimalBehavior</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DevelopmentalPsychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DevelopmentalPsychology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BehavioralNeuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BehavioralNeuroscience</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dogs</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Primates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Primates</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cognition</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Psychology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cooperation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cooperation</a> We wrote a textbook called <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ComparativeCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComparativeCognition</a>, and we are working on the second edition now. Most activity here will be from Val.

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