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3:09am August 14, 2014

Thoughtful Birds In Action

It won’t let me embed these videos, but for anyone interested in bird cognition or animal cognition, here are three bird videos in order called Thoughtful Birds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glJ8ogs3ad8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEHiPHqU8Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nK7U9y4xDE

It’s always interesting to me, in a disturbing sort of way, how whenever humans (at least most white, Western scientists, among others) are shown that their criteria for “what separates us from the animals” is wrong… then they just turn around and make up new criteria and act like those criteria have always been the criteria we’ve always used.

Or in birb-speak:

They move ‘em the GOPE-posts an pretend we too DUMB to notice.