The Fruits Of Intelligence Is Remembering Where To Get Food
The Fruits Of Intelligence Is Remembering Where To Get Food
by Staff Writers
St Andrews, UK (SPX) Jun 26, 2006
New findings reported this week reveal that at least some primates can use their stored knowledge of recent weather as a tool for guiding their foraging behavior when searching for ripening fruit.
The work, which potentially informs our understanding of how cognitive skills developed in humans and other primates, is reported by Karline Janmaat, Richard Byrne, and Klaus Zuberbühler of the University of St. Andrews in the June 20th issue of Current Biology.
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