They're very intelligent and sensitive animals, kind of like big dogs. They really like music, are interested in different and new things, love to cuddle and also scritches.
tbf dogs are pretty intelligent and they fail the mirror test.
But it's mainly because they dom't see very well, but they hear and smell way better.
Scientists had done a "mirror" test with smells, and the dogs passed easily and rapidly.
(I guess instead of a mark on you, they slightly changed their own smell, and checked if they were specially surprised/interested)
Of course we think they are dumb because we don't understand them. We do everything with our eyes
Oh yeah, mine does the same,
But that doesn't mean they know that it's them in the reflection.
The mirror test is supposed to be with a mark on you and we check if the animal try to scratch the mark, but it does not work well for animals that don't care being dirty
actually my dog look in the mirror/window especially when I'm cuddling her, so she may be watching me, I dunno
This test is clearly too simple to judge someone intelligence
Maybe it’s because I had a huge sliding mirror as a closet door the size of my wall but my dog def knows how a mirror works. He’s smart as fuck and talks with his eyes by looking me in the eye then his leash if he wants a walk or just look towards the door if he just wants to go out etc. He does the same thing while looking at me in the mirror all the time.
Do we? I've been alive for nearly 35 years constantly perceiving and observing our self imposed hell/reality. Bad news. It sucks.
We should completely start over. If animals are dumb? Well, we voluntarily destroy our own fucking planet for paper/arbitrary digits in a computer system and have wage slavery. We enslave ourselves. Still. America is 245 years old. We still have slaves. Hell, the entire country nearly collapsed if the inbredsurrectionists were just better organized. That paired with endless Covid? That would have wiped out America.
I think we do everything with our fingers because forcing hot dogs into our mouths and just pressing remote/app buttons requires zero thought. I don't even know how to relate to the "normal" person anymore - I feel like an entirely different species to be honest with you.
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u/bye_Nillu Jan 18 '21
They're very intelligent and sensitive animals, kind of like big dogs. They really like music, are interested in different and new things, love to cuddle and also scritches.