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By that standard the monarch butterfly is stupid too. That said they are smart enough to follow only a portion of their full migratory route which takes 4 gene
by bb88 6y ago
By that standard the monarch butterfly is stupid too. That said they are smart enough to follow only a portion of their full migratory route which takes 4 generations to complete.
Squirrels remember where they bury their nuts. Octopuses can solve puzzles.
So what about fish? Salmon remember where they were spawned before they head out to the ocean, and come back to the exact same pool to spawn before dying.
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/02/13/mystery-solved-salmon-navigate-using-magnetic-field/ https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/02/13/mystery-solve...
So sure, they're not "SMART" but there is a lot of "intelligence" they have acquired over many generations of evolutionary cycles.
- bombela 6y agoSquirrel do not remember much though. They fill the ground with nuts. Then they dig the ground seemingly at random. Most of theis caches are forgotten. Which often leads to nuts trees sprouting all over the place during spring.
- bb88 6y agohttps://www.livescience.com/64104-how-do-squirrels-find-buried-nuts.html https://www.livescience.com/64104-how-do-squirrels-find-buri... This article seems to suggest otherwise.
- BurningFrog 6y agoI'll settle this; Salmon, butterflies and squirrels are all dumb as hell. What they are is incredibly well adapted to reproduce and survive on this crazy planet!
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