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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
I don't know why people are always so quick to dismiss animal intelligence as "they're just doing it for food." Like so WHAT so are YOU if you want to be that reductive about it. Why is it hard to acknowledge that an animal that we know can learn to associate speech sounds with meaning and can smell orders of magnitude better than we can would be able to tell different train lines apart and recognize stations from their smell? Plenty of people just get on the train without a destination because there are other people on there who might give them things. Who cares why they go around on the train, its enough that they do.