[shrinkermd]

"...The trouble is that all sorts of animals -- from those in the African bush to those in your living room -- keep acting as if they truly do have emotions remarkably like humans'. Last month, Ya Ya, a panda in a Chinese zoo, accidentally crushed her newborn to death. She seemed inconsolable -- wailing and frantically searching for the tiny body. The keeper said that when he called her name, she just looked up at him with tear-filled eyes before lowering her head again. The conventional view is that these were instinctive, reflexive reactions, and that Ya Ya didn't know she was sad. As the evidence for animal consciousness piles up, that view becomes harder to support.

[mathprof]

But donkeys don't think do they?

[TBP]

The reactions of animals are fascinating.

[tet68]

consciousness -- in other words, they may be capable of thinking about their thoughts and knowing that they know.

Something that can't be said for liberals, they only have feelings.

[Cicero]

The guy who mows our lawn had to sell his farm and start a landscaping service. He says that when he had the farm he knew all his milk cows by name.

Once he visited the farm he sold them to. He spotted one of his cows, went up to her and called her by name.

He says they both stood their crying.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Why am I not buying into "The Dog hung-up on you Not me" story?

[Continental Soldier]

"Thinking about their thoughts?" No, I don't think so.

[Rockitz]

This kind of thinking is exactly why I have the "2 cat" rule when it comes to dating women. Any woman who has 2 or more cats is thinking way too much about what their cats are thinking.

[Continental Soldier]

Dogs are damn smart - some breeds more than others, but all can and do learn our "ways" and play them for all they are worth! lol

[vigilante2]

Thats funny our dog answers the phone too..

We found out when several people told us they called and the dog answered

[GSlob]

Well, my late cat was always setting himself on a newspaper in the proper direction to the page - never sideways and never upside down. From which it is obvious that he was literate, in no fewer than three languages, to boot. What he could find in these nespapers, though, remains a mystery.

[stuartcr]

I don't see why it's considered a trouble.

[LongElegantLegs]

This is my dog thinking"OH MY GOD! PEE!!!!!"

[ThanhPhero]

My own mutt, reportedly a poodle/daschund, could figure out fairly complicated problems. I could tell her to get the ball and bring it to me. I could also tell her to get the ball and take it to someone else with a name that she was familiar with and one of perhaps a dozen such names. She could follow those instructions. I watched her check out a sandwich that my boy had left on a chair in the kitchen. She checked all the approaches-3 doorways, then went around and apparently checked where everyone was then ran in one doorway, snatched the sandwich, and exited another doorway. She met my son who was arriving on his bicycle and he said she stopped and looked at him for a second, looked around, then dropped the sandwich at his feet and begged.One time she was excavating a tunnel under our back fence. When she was allowed out to play with the children in the front she went to the spot where she had been digging and began digging toward her excavation from the other side of the fence.

[nmh]

I'm beginning to think animals like that Panda are smarter than humans. Humans arrange the murder of their r babies and feel no remorse and advocate others to do that. Through an accident the panda mourns her deceased baby.

[Grut]

Pretty conclusive.

[Slings and Arrows]

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[andyandval]

solve problems, use tools

[HairOfTheDog]

Ping!

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[woofie]

This will make it harder to waterboard my dogs

[Lady Jag]