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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Crows and parrots are intellectually on the same level as dolphins and great apes. The same cannot be said for some humans.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It has been argued by some researchers that certain porpoises, lile orcas, may be more intelligent than humans in some metrics, particularly emotional intelligence.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

...and social intelligence too, like all delfinoides

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago
[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So crows are also capable of stack overflow then? You could make a DOS attack strat out of this!

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The real question is what the logic bomb for humans is. :)

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Acronyms like GNU is not Unix, PHP Hypertext Processor, Wine is not an Emulator, etc

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
[–] dreiwert@szmer.info 2 points 2 years ago

It would be interesting to find something within real-world behaviour of crows that requires this cognitive ability.

[–] letsplaywithfire@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

"They kept saying cows watched sunsets. At that point I wished I’d used the fucking conspiracy theorists instead of the cows. Nobody would’ve cared if I’d turned people inside-out who think vaccines have nanites in them that mine cryptocurrency. But cows watch sunsets, man!" -TM