I'll be generous and suggest that NatGeo didn't translate the research fully correctly. The quote from the researcher is "animals have no long-term memory of ar

I'll be generous and suggest that NatGeo didn't translate the research fully correctly. The quote from the researcher is "animals have no long-term memory of arbitrary events" though there may be "specialized memory systems hardwired to remember certain "biologically relevant information" (such as where to find food)." This would mean that it's much harder to have a discussion abou the topic without a detailed understanding of what "associative memory", etc. means - knowledge I don't have.