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Thursday, April 8, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Red-tailed Hawk, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, March 17, 2010
Red-tailed Hawk, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, March 17, 2010

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Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Alex Can Think

Animal researchers are finally beginning to catch up to the little old ladies in tennis shoes who say Fifi the poodle can think. The fights are always between a big group of experts who think animals don't have a lot of feelings or aren't very smart, and a much smaller group of researchers who think there's a lot more going on inside an animal's head than we know. The really nasty fights always seem to go one way: it's always the animal "debunkers" who are on the attack. At least, I don't remember a single big academic fight where someone got fired or lost their funding for doing a study where the animal turned out to be dumber than people thought, and lots of studies like that have been done. Claiming that an animal can't do something isn't considered blasphemous.

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