Elements - Science news: Animals are able to think logically

Animals think logically - to such a conclusion was reached by a team of researchers from different countries, running a series of ingenious experiments on rats. They found that rats are able to identify the true cause of the event from a number of associatively-related phenomena. This result changes our understanding of the limits of animal intelligence, as earlier scholars believed that the thinking of animals is based on the formation of a network of associative connections, rather than on understanding the causes and consequences. The main qualitative difference cel …

26 February 2006 | conclusion, event, group, news, number, rat, reason, research, science


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