Posted on 08/19/2008 1:48:22 PM PDT by pollwatcher
I remember the Baltimore Science Museum displaying an imaginary figure of what an intelligent reptile would have evolved into (if we weren't around to derail them, I guess). I also remember seeing the pack hunting Raptors in Jurrasic Park thinking "No way could any lizard ever be that smart!"
Well, maybe some the dino's avian offshoots are doin' it for themselves! (Maybe some of those smart African Grey Parrots could get themselve "socially promoted" to 5th grade level given the Public School standards these days!)
Dang, my dog knows herself in the mirror.................
All you have to do is watch those old “Heckle and Jeckle” cartoons to realize how gifted magpies are.
Chickens can do this.
When they start building hospitals, shopping malls and churches, create art for it’s own sake, can appreciate music and the beauty of a sunset, and most importantly are aware of their Creator, then the debate should begin. Until then, so what? The belief that one is the result of a (long) series of DNA coding errors, makes one more like the animals one studies, and less human.
“It shows that the line leading to humans is not as special as many thought,” lead researcher Helmut Prior of the Institute of Psychology at Goethe University in Frankfurt...”
But of course. Naturally, though, for these clowns it doesn’t matter what the experiment shows, the conclusion is always the same: humanity isn’t all that special.
(By the way, am I the only one who gets nervous when Germans start talking about how un-special human beings are?)
My thought exactly. LOL!
Total BS. A lot of animals are very smart. I had no idea how smart rabbits were til I got pet rabbits. Smart critters. And funny too. They have foibles that are hilarious.
“Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror.”
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Some days I can’t even do that.
Is it self awarness or recognition of the same species.
I have 2 labs. I discovered they had grown too big for me to walk them in tandem when they drug me across someone’s lawn to visit the concrete lawn ornament of a dog.
My biggest lab consistently barks at a lawn ornament of a panther. She recognizes the catness of it.
Upon looking into the mirror, the female Magpies immediately asked, “Do I look fat?”
LOL
Not sure what magpies being ‘self-aware’ has to do with the evolution debate. They have two eyes as well - just like humans! :::gasp:::
The pack hunting raptors in Jurassic Park remind me exactly of chickens going after a garter snake or a frog.
Lately when I look in a mirror there is old man in there. Don’t recognize him though.
There’s at least one person in the world who’s taught an African grey parrot to speak English perfectly well but you have to raise the bird as if he were a kid and not a bird, i.e. it’s a lot of work.
That’s Joe Sleestak (D-PA). A reptile, indeed.
"Reptile" comes before "Republican" in the dictionary.
Of course, so does "Democrat" (which as Julia Roberts never observed comes after "demise" and before "dinosaur").
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