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This is the larger lesson of animal cognition research: It humbles us.

We are not alone in our ability to invent or plan or to contemplate ourselves—or even to plot and lie.

Many scientists believed animals were incapable of any thought. They were simply machines, robots programmed to react to stimuli but lacking the ability to think or feel.

We’re glimpsing intelligence throughout the animal kingdom.


Copyright Vincent J. Musi, National Geographic
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