Purrfect pets

• Autores: Caroline Williams
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3052-3053, 2015, págs. 48-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The more people lock at the animals they share their lives with, the more signs of intelligence crop up. Take Moses the red-footed tortoise. When Anna Wilkinson, an animal cognition researcher at the University of Lincoln, UK, put Moses into amaze, the notorious plodder surprised everyone. He not only performed as well as any rat, but also altered his navigation strategy when the situation changed--something beyond rats. Tortoises, it seems, are anything but slow. Here, Williams determines which pets come closest to being human mental equals.