{"id":94422,"date":"2019-08-04T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/researchers-find-birds-can-theorize-about-the-minds-of-others-even-those-they-cannot-see"},"modified":"2019-08-04T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:02:27","slug":"researchers-find-birds-can-theorize-about-the-minds-of-others-even-those-they-cannot-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/researchers-find-birds-can-theorize-about-the-minds-of-others-even-those-they-cannot-see","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find birds can theorize about the minds of others, even those they cannot see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-find-birds-can-theorize-about-the-minds-of-others-even-those-they-cannot-see2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The question of what sets humans apart from other animals is one of the oldest philosophical puzzles. A popular answer is that only humans can understand that others also have minds like their own.<\/p>\n<p>But new research suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ravens\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ravens<\/a> \u2014 birds singled out by many cultures as a symbol of intelligence and wisdom \u2014 share at least some of the human ability to think abstractly about other minds, adapting their behavior by attributing their own perceptions to others.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cRavens Attribute Visual Access to Unseen Competitors,\u201d was published Feb. 2 in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>. It found that ravens guarded caches of food against discovery in response to the sounds of other ravens if a nearby peephole was open, even if they did not see another bird. They did not show the same concern when the peephole was closed, despite the auditory cues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of what sets humans apart from other animals is one of the oldest philosophical puzzles. A popular answer is that only humans can understand that others also have minds like their own. But new research suggests that ravens \u2014 birds singled out by many cultures as a symbol of intelligence and wisdom \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94422","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}