Animals Can Count?
Pardon the interruption, but this is too odd not to share. In the last two days I’ve learned that both fish and bees can count. Odd.
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slashdot ran a story about chicks having innate math skills also.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/03/1525244
Crows are famous for counting too. They use their toes. Some Scientists were living in a house next to a crow’s nest (where it was protecting it’s young), they figured it all out.
When 5 scientists went into the house, and 4 came out, the crows didn’t think anyone else was in there (and stopped carefully watching it, worried about their young). When 5 went in and only 1 came out, however, the crows still knew that there were people in the house. In short, after a bunch of really nerdy experiments, they figured out that crows can count to three.
Good post, nevertheless , you ought to know that there is pretty much identical text on Ezine articles! Somebody may have copied it and set it there, just thought you have to know.