{"id":125769,"date":"2021-08-03T07:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/a-fun-piece-the-most-amazing-things-about-animal-consciousness"},"modified":"2021-08-03T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:23:57","slug":"a-fun-piece-the-most-amazing-things-about-animal-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/a-fun-piece-the-most-amazing-things-about-animal-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"A fun piece: The Most Amazing Things About Animal Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-fun-piece-the-most-amazing-things-about-animal-consciousness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe patronize [the animals] for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err.\u201d Animals diverge from us in wonderfully creative ways. Did you know dogs have magnetotactic abilities and prefer to relieve themselves along a north-south axis? And dolphins echolocation allows them to see X-ray-like images &amp; \u201ctell\u201d other dolphins what they\u2019ve seen without our clumsy, 1-word-at-a-time process. Instead, they create a visual picture of what they saw in the minds of other dolphins, perhaps even \u201cbolding\u201d aspects they want to emphasize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertlanza.com\/the-Most-Amazing-Things-About-Animal-Consciousness\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertlanza.com\/the-Most-Amazing-Things-About-Animal-Consciousness\/\">https:\/\/www.robertlanza.com\/the-Most-Amazing-Things-About-Animal-Consciousness\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe patronize [the animals] for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err.\u201d Animals diverge from us in wonderfully creative ways. Did you know dogs have magnetotactic abilities and prefer to relieve themselves along a north-south axis? And dolphins echolocation allows them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}