Cephalopods are very intelligent, especially considering their lifespans.
Biden can’t.
You have no idea how important this information is to my plans to use cuttlefish for world domination.
Had the opportunity to observe an aquarium of cuttlefish during feeding time at the zoo. It’s fascinating to watch as they quickly change their coloration in response to the stimuli.
Interesting.
Those things is SMRT!
Perhaps they just don’t like crab meat. So, they are not like humans in that a human can actually be taught. The only thing the Cuttlefish can do is somewhat appear, to the human, to be learning.
You need the right kind of Lab Assistants to help you conduct a broad ranging experiment like that one.
Not told was how long it took to ‘teach’ cuttlefish that version of the Marshmallow Test.
How many individual fish involved per test?
Is a Cuttlefish a schooling type of fish, inclined to follow a leader or are they more inclined to act independantly when present as a group?
I would think most small fish are inclined to travel, feed and react in formation, or as a ‘school’.
> This ability to delay gratification demonstrates cognitive abilities such as future planning, and it was originally conducted to study how human cognition develops; specifically, at what age a human is smart enough to delay gratification if it means a better outcome later.
In some humans, this ability never develops.
I would’ve been the kid that didn’t eat the marshmallow, not because I was patient, but because I don’t like them. Although if it was a Rice Krispie treat, all bets are off. Those things are yummy!
Yes, we’re smarter than the average bear. Really, we’re just testing the tester; we have bigger things in mind.
So I’m guessing home school?
The ‘marshmallow test’ might also be interpreted as a trust test, instead of an intelligence test. If I knew the people testing me were liberals, I’d eat the first one immediately.
They probably score higher than most of those graduating high school in blue cities...
Smart AND tasty!
The smartest animals I know are a pair of large ravens out at a ranch where I worked. They were big when I started and they are still there 11 years later. Not only did they have remarkable smarts, but they seemed to coordinate all raven activity in the area. Mostly they had the place to themselves, but if there was excess food, suddenly there were more ravens. When the new ravens fledged, they would gather at the ranch and the adults would vanish. The young ravens would socialize and learn how to be ravens. I once saw three on them on a log, facing into the wind moving their wings as if they were flying, and that’s what they were practicing. The old raven pair had the most amazing vocabulary. Occasionally they would sit in a tree near me, unseen and make sounds like a dog barking in the distance. I have a ton of stories about them.