On 3/29/2012 10:33 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Thanks for looking, Bob. He is a smart bird. When I was there last, the
> barber's wife was there, and she showed me how she had taught him to dance
> and do a turn-about on his perch.
Why do we refer to animals that learn to do tricks to please us as 'smart'? I
suppose that it may be evolutionarily
'smart', in that it assures survival as long as we do, but 'brain smart'?
Cats are very hard to train to do what we want and very good at training their
people. Isn't that smarter?
Been Owned by Cats Moose
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