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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: 0.208s | 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Does the idea that "only humans can recognize shapes" sounds ridicolously outdated?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. TomMasz ◴[21 Apr 25 15:25 UTC] No.43753014[source]▶
Specieism in science goes way back. The funny thing is, people who live closer to nature and birds and animals have known about animal intelligence for millennia. But they were "primitives" who couldn't possibly have more knowledge than learned white people.

And crows? Humans have been battling crows since the beginning of agriculture. It takes some serious effort to crow-proof everything on a farm.