DOHHH!
Animals Are ‘Stuck In Time’ With Little Idea Of Past Or Future, Study Suggests
sounds like that could apply to today’s captive public schools audience too..
“Dog owners, who have noticed that their four-legged friend seem equally delighted to see them after five minutes away as five hours,”
How hungry they were also played a factor for mine.
I know I’ve seen this article before, I just can’t remember when.
My cat sure as h*ll remembers what a car carrier is.
Billy Pilgrim got unstuck in time.
These results, the researchers say, suggest that episodic-like memory in rats is qualitatively different from human episodic memory, which involves retention of the point in past time when an event occurred.
Mine doesn't :)
Dog owners, who have noticed that their four-legged friend seem equally delighted to see them after five minutes away as five hours,
Then there are cats who have the attitude of, "Oh, were you gone?"
My two cats punish me whenever I leave for more than two days.
Well this just can’t be.
Monkeys, dogs, dolphins...are all supposed to be nearly as smart as people!!! Imagine that.
BE the monkey!!
That point is not sufficiently clear. Can they remember the maze but not sequence?
These guys are completely nuts. Maybe rats and mice are like that, but I can guarantee that dogs not only are aware of time, but they have internal clocks that are accurate to within about five minutes. How do I know this?? I usually give my two Corgi’s a piece of cheese (treat) at 6:00AM. If I don’t show signs of “standing and delivering” (like I’m sitting down reading) within +/- five minutes of 6AM, my female Corgi WILL show up next to the chair, sit back on her haunchs (think prairie dog in “sentry” mode), and “bitch” at me because my ass isn’t in gear to deliver the cheese.
I disagree. Both my cat and my dog have accurate timeclocks.
When I come home early, the dog takes a long time to get home to greet me. If I am on time, she is there at the gate.
The cat wakes me up just before the alarm clock goes off. Maybe ten minutes.
Women never forget anything.
This explains why my cat does not understand that feeding time is 7am and 7pm, despite my repeated attempts to tell him that. :)
Or as liberal reccommend - they’re “living in the moment”...
Well, I don’t know about all this. I have to ask myself why some animals exhibit what sure looks an awful lot like loyalty and even affection bordering on love for their masters. Every once in a while I read a story about a dog (seems it is always a dog but maybe other animals too) saving the life of a human master - sometimes incurring injury or even death in doing so. How do the scientists explain that kind of behavior? It certainly makes no sense in terms of “instinct”.
But then I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Scientists have so far utterly failed to explain honor, love, loyalty, faith, honesty or any of the higher ideals that humans express routinely. And scientists, so far as I am aware, are all humans. You would think that what with working with a human mind every day of their lives they would have developed some insight as to how and why it works the way it does. But they haven’t. Why should it be expected that they will do any better with the minds of non-human creatures?
My cat remembers not to jump onto a hot grill lid from many many years ago.
Good grief. Now they’re doing research studies on old George Carlin routines. I think this one about dogs thinking everything will last forever was from “Carlin on Campus.”