Tuesday, May 23, 2006

ALSO, I JUST FOUND OUT THAT MY CAT HAS AN IRA

Birds, apes can plan ahead, studies show

Experiments on orangutans and scrub jays suggest humans aren't the only animals who can think ahead, scientists say.

Orangutans and bonobos - small apes closely related to chimpanzees - have shown that they can remember which tools they need to retrieve a treat.

And scrub jays have shown that they will hide their food a second time if a rival bird saw them store it the first time.

"Planning for future needs is not uniquely human," Thomas Suddendorf of the University of Queensland in Australia wrote in a commentary accompanying the two studies, published Friday in the journal Science.

yeah, yeah

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