{"id":752810,"date":"2018-04-16T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=752810"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:19:50","slug":"seven-creatures-with-skills-that-easily-beat-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=752810","title":{"rendered":"Seven creatures with skills that easily beat humans"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>A wave of research into animal cognition reveals that just about anything you do, other creatures can do too. Sometimes, they can do it far better. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KAT McGOWEN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;You think you\u2019re so smart. Well, a wave of research into animal cognition reveals that just about anything you do, other creatures can do too. Sometimes, they can do it far better. To probe the nature of intelligence, scientists test animal skills and compare how different species think. A chimpanzee and a crow both understand cause and effect, but one\u2019s got a big wrinkly brain like a human, and the other possesses a smooth ball of cells that could fit into a tablespoon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Examining how two critters with radically different wiring solve the same problem might illuminate brain science\u2019s murkiest mystery: how a glob of neurons generates smarts. The timing couldn\u2019t be better. With AI poised to enter everyday life, we are anxious about what will happen when we\u2019re outflanked by machines. Animal-cognition research suggests that maybe we shouldn\u2019t be too worried: It turns out we\u2019ve been sharing the planet with superior alien intelligence all along&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/smart-animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1efbXa76EO8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAT McGOWEN: &#8216;You think you\u2019re so smart. Well, a wave of research into animal cognition reveals that just about anything you do, other creatures can do too. Sometimes, they can do it far better. To probe the nature of intelligence, scientists test animal skills and compare how different species think. A chimpanzee and a crow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-752810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kisnship","category-science","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752813,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752810\/revisions\/752813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}