Apes share cognitive ability of humans’ to recognise perspective of others

Scientists using homemade videos featuring a person in a King Kong costume have documented a remarkable cognitive skill shared by chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans: the human-like ability to recognise when someone else’s beliefs are wrong.

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Something very similar has also been tested in pigs.
Chickens also have the ability.

mollwollfumble said:

Something very similar has also been tested in pigs.
Chickens also have the ability.

Got a ref for that?

Pigs, OK, but I’m sceptical about chooks.

how sweet of them

CrazyNeutrino said:

Apes share cognitive ability of humans’ to recognise perspective of others

Scientists using homemade videos featuring a person in a King Kong costume have documented a remarkable cognitive skill shared by chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans: the human-like ability to recognise when someone else’s beliefs are wrong.

more…

The mosquito also has the human-like ability to recognise when someone else’s beliefs are wrong.

You can see lions hunting in pairs using this ability, misleading antelopes.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Something very similar has also been tested in pigs.
Chickens also have the ability.

Got a ref for that?

Pigs, OK, but I’m sceptical about chooks.

Free range chooks are on record as deliberately misleading other chooks as to the presence of predators in order to appear braver.

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Something very similar has also been tested in pigs.
Chickens also have the ability.

Got a ref for that?

Pigs, OK, but I’m sceptical about chooks.

Free range chooks are on record as deliberately misleading other chooks as to the presence of predators in order to appear braver.

Wow, I didn’t even know that chooks could communicate their motivations to us.

They twirl their moustaches

>appear braver.

that’d be a conceptual attribution

transition said:

>appear braver.

that’d be a conceptual attribution

+1