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Purrfect pets

机译:纯洁的宠物

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The more we look at the animals we share our lives with, the more signs of intelligence crop up. Take Moses the red-footed tortoise. When Anna Wilkinson, an animal cognition researcher at the University of Lincoln, UK, put Moses into a maze, the notorious plodder surprised everyone. He not only performed as well as any rat, but also altered his navigation strategy when the situation changed -something beyond rats. Tortoises, it seems, are anything but slow. But we humans tend to be most impressed by aptitude that resembles our own particular brand of intelligence. So which pets come closest to being our mental equals? Chaser, a border collie belonging to animal cognition researcher John Pilley, learned the meaning of more than 1000 words, including names for toys and instructions on what to do with them, such as "to ball, take Frisbee". Such feats required learning by inference, the same trick children use to learn language.
机译:我们越看待与我们共享生活的动物,就越会出现智慧的迹象。拿摩西的红脚乌龟。当英国林肯大学的动物认知研究者安娜·威尔金森(Anna Wilkinson)将摩西(Moses)置于迷宫中时,臭名昭著的坑坑洼洼使所有人感到惊讶。当情况发生变化时,他不仅表现出色,还改变了他的导航策略,这超出了老鼠。看来,乌龟不过慢。但是,我们人类往往对类似于我们自己的智能品牌的才能印象最深。那么,哪些宠物最接近我们的心理平等呢? Chaser是属于动物认知研究人员John Pilley的边境牧羊犬,他学会了1000多个单词的含义,包括玩具的名称以及如何处理玩具的说明,例如“打球,带飞盘”。这样的壮举需要通过推理来学习,这与孩子们用来学习语言的技巧一样。

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    《New scientist》 |2015年第3053期|48-50|共3页
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    Caroline Williams;

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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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