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Crows can recognize geometric regularity

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178 points wglb | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 14:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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countWSS ◴[21 Apr 25 04:50 UTC] No.43748585[source]▶
Does the idea that "only humans can recognize shapes" sounds ridicolously outdated? Its like "Science confirms animals feel pain".
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1. makeitdouble ◴[21 Apr 25 05:05 UTC] No.43748640[source]▶
I assume the subtext of this research is not that human are special, and more that each specific claim towards each species of animal needs exploration and confirmation.

And it genuinely takes a lot of time when dealing with reasonably complex animals.

It reminds me of the research on cinereous tits, where the researcher had to spend like half a year at a time to validate a given chant matches a given word.