Dogs have a talent for reading social cues in a very sophisticated way. |
I am going to be a rookie myself when I first step out there on Sept. 10. You can't simulate what a game situation is going to be like, you can't simulate the nervous feeling, everything is just different on Saturdays. |
If someone says, 'we'd be keen', then we'd chalk it as an option. |
It just happens that because they're all doing it at the same time, it helps them catch the monkey. You really need an experiment to get at what they are doing. |
It looks like dogs really do understand what we are trying to tell them, they are thinking about what we want, and they understand that we are trying to communicate. |
So what we see in the wild may be really sophisticated. |
The experiments show that chimpanzees spontaneously recognize that when they are faced with a problem they cannot solve on their own they need to recruit help. |
They know when they need help. |
They work together to chase monkeys, and they're quite effective when they chase them together. |
Wolves have bigger brains than dogs, so it was thought the wolves would do better. And chimpanzees are primates, closer to humans, so it was thought they would do better. |
You can't be helpful if you don't have a way to avoid being cheated. |