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We humans tend to underestimate the intelligence of animals.
Take little Mickey, our Yorkshire terrier, for example; he seems to know when it is a quarter to five in the evening, give or take five minutes. That is the time when my wife gives him his supper of freshly cooked chicken. How he manages this trick is a complete mystery to us. Our Jack Russell, Ollie, however, has the patience of Job for he knows that the chicken will appear just as soon as my wife has got fed up with Mickey’s wittering and produces the goods.
The intelligence of other animals is often reported in the newspapers and the latest concerns the baboons occupying a beauty spot on the Cape Peninsula in Cape Town which overlooks the Atlantic Ocean.
These animals have learned that when folk lock their cars when they get out to take photographs, there is no point in trying to gain access to any goodies inside. The trick is that they listen out for the sound of a car’s remote central locking system engaging. On the other hand, if they don’t hear the sound of the locks engaging, then in they go to grab any food that might be inside. Clever animals.
But, of course, none of this helps to explain how Mickey can tell the time!
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We humans tend to underestimate the intelligence of animals.
Take little Mickey, our Yorkshire terrier, for example; he seems to know when it is a quarter to five in the evening, give or take five minutes. That is the time when my wife gives him his supper of freshly cooked chicken. How he manages this trick is a complete mystery to us. Our Jack Russell, Ollie, however, has the patience of Job for he knows that the chicken will appear just as soon as my wife has got fed up with Mickey’s wittering and produces the goods.
The intelligence of other animals is often reported in the newspapers and the latest concerns the baboons occupying a beauty spot on the Cape Peninsula in Cape Town which overlooks the Atlantic Ocean.
These animals have learned that when folk lock their cars when they get out to take photographs, there is no point in trying to gain access to any goodies inside. The trick is that they listen out for the sound of a car’s remote central locking system engaging. On the other hand, if they don’t hear the sound of the locks engaging, then in they go to grab any food that might be inside. Clever animals.
But, of course, none of this helps to explain how Mickey can tell the time!
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