Episode 2 of Punching Cards, the podcast about all things intelligent is now out!

This time we talk about non-human animal intelligence, especially in birds and in our chimp and bonobo cousins, with cognitive biologist Alice Auesperg and philosopher Richard Moore. Cameo by a tool-using cockatoo!

https://www.spreaker.com/user/17124368/ep2-punching-cards

 #intelligence #animalcognition #podcast #philosophy  #sciencecommunication

Why Researchers Turned This Goldfish Into a Cyborg - Neuroscientists are examining how fish navigate their world using different brain circuit... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/science/goldfish-brain-computer-navigation.html #computersandtheinternet #fishandothermarinelife #plosbiology(journal) #your-feed-science #your-feed-animals #animalcognition #navigation #research #brain

Octopuses torture and eat themselves after mating. Science finally knows why. | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/why-octopus-moms-self-destruct
#biology #AnimalCognition

To be taken in by a magic trick, you have to be capable of enacting what you think the illusionist is doing in the trick. An interesting demonstration of embodied cognition.

Only Monkeys With Opposable Thumbs Fell for This Classic Magic Trick

https://gizmodo.com/monkeys-fall-for-magic-trick-opposable-thumbs-1850295775
#AnimalCognition #cognition #PhilosophyOfMind #psychology

Ars Technica: Can you fool a monkey with a magic trick? Only if it has opposable thumbs https://arstechnica.com/?p=1928725 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #animalcognition #Uncategorized #animalanatomy #magictricks #psychology #Science #animals #Biology #monkeys

Can you fool a monkey with a magic trick? Only if it has opposable thumbs - A Humboldt's squirrel monkey is fooled by the "French Drop" magic tr... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1928725 #animalcognition #uncategorized #animalanatomy #magictricks #psychology #science #animals #biology #monkeys

Time for a new an expanded introduction. Escapee from twitter: Burned out on following #politics, #journalism, #news, but I'm still paying attention. Always interested in #science, #biology, #animalbehavior, #animals, #insects, #photography, #nature, #travel, #music, #songwriting, #cognition, #evolution, #ecology, #cognitivescience, including #AI, #ChatGPT, #GPT4, #animalcognition, #evoeco,

Bees learn to dance and to solve puzzles from their peers - Enlarge / Bumblebees can learn to solve puzzles from experienced peers.... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1922679 #animalcommunication #animalcognition #eusocialinsects #sociallearning #science #animals #biology #insects #bees

Ars Technica: Bees learn to dance and to solve puzzles from their peers https://arstechnica.com/?p=1922679 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #animalcommunication #animalcognition #eusocialinsects #sociallearning #Science #animals #Biology #insects #science #bees

Non-human animals are so cool! And, I’m glad humans are starting to really explore all the coolnesses of #AnimalCognition in a #science-based way.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thoughts-of-a-spiderweb-20170523/

Late to this, but very cool for nonhuman-primate enthusiasts like me: "Experts are reevaluating prehistoric Pleistocene-era sites in Brazil previously believed to have been home to ancient humans. It turns out, the 50,000-year-old stone tools discovered in excavations are probably the work of capuchin monkeys." Research by archaeologist Agustín M. Agnolín and paleontologist Federico L. Agnolínn. #primates #archaeology #anthropology #animals #animalcognition https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-tools-monkeys-2237820

These Engineers Want to Build Conscious Robots. Others Say It’s a Bad Idea. - The pursuit of robot consciousness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/science/robots-artificial-intelligence-consciousness.html #sciencerobotics(journal) #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #evolution(biology) #cognition(journal) #columbiauniversity #robotsandrobotics #internal-sub-only #your-feed-science #animalcognition #philosophy

#Dognition diary entry 3:

Suka is a 9 year old husky and she's protective over her food. If a cat gets too close, she will snap at them.

However, over the past few months Suka has started whining whenever a cat moves toward her food.

I feel like she's telling me, "mommy, please stop the cat before I do something bad."

She does it consistently and I would love to know what she's actually thinking!

@dogsofmastodon @dogs #PhotoMonday #Photography #AnimalCognition

A cortico-collicular circuit for orienting to shelter during escape

When faced with predatory threats, escape towards shelter is an adaptive action that offers long-term protection against the attacker.

the mouse retrosplenial cortex (RSP) and superior colliculus (SC) form a circuit that encodes the shelter-direction vector and is specifically required for accurately orienting to shelter during escape.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05553-9

https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-news/brain-circuit-converts-spatial-goals-escape-actions-discovered

#neuro #cognition #animalCognition

I just read this very interesting piece by Shelly Volsche et al. where they propose a more ethical framework for carrying out and reporting on research in #AnimalBehavior and #AnimalCognition. Among other things, they proposed that past research deemed problematic should be marked as such when cited, including a mention to whether its methodology and husbandry is deficiently described, and to any welfare or ecological validity concerns. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12912

miRNAs may play a fundamental role in the development of complex brains.

Major RNA innovation of soft-bodied cephalopods is an expansion of the microRNA (miRNA) gene repertoire. The only comparable miRNA expansions happened, notably, in vertebrates.

Grygoriy Zolotarov et al. (2022): „MicroRNAs are deeply linked to the emergence of the complex octopus brain“, Science Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add9938
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add9938

#animalCognition #neuroscience

Yesterday I had the pleasure of exchanging ideas about the possibility of thinking #abductivereasoning in the cognitive processes of non-human animals. Woosuk Park wrote an exciting chapter on this, so I am sharing it with you:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-37428-9_12

@philosophy #philosophy #cognitivescience #philosophyofscience #animalcognition #cognition

Amazing story about how a hurricane swept a small herd of cows out to the Atlantic...and a few survived more than 7 hours in stormy seas and swam *30 miles* 🤯 before reaching shore. #AnimalCognition #cows #survival #science
https://magazine.atavist.com/true-grit-cows-core-banks-hurricane-dorian-survival/

One of the most complicated works I have written with Prof. Jordi Vallverdú (UAB) is the following chapter on #creativity in minimal cognition through #abductivereaoning.

Currently, I am working to integrate this idea based on human animals into non-human animal #cognition (#animalcognition). It's a challenge and a pleasure to write #philosophy (#philosophyofscience) with biologists (#biology), ethologists (#ethology), etc.

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-68436-5_71-1

Come hear/see @justindgregg and me in online conversation Thursday, 11/17, 6pm Eastern. We'll focus on Justin's book If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity, and some of my own thoughts on emotions in #animals, too. Not a great hour for European time zones I realize--- would be delighted for anyone here to join! Register for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northshire-online-justin-gregg-if-nietzsche-were-a-narwhal-tickets-441155075707 #humanevolution #animalcognition #books