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From the Archives: What Can 3D Movies Teach Us About How Ants Smell?
Posted by Jason G. Goldman on June 23, 2011 A version of this post was originally published on my WordPress blog on March 15, 2010. Click the archives image to see the original post. Most animals, at some point in their day-to-day lives, face the same problem. After they’ve gone out in search of food, they need to find their way home. But some…
Is Pedagogy Specific to Humans? Teaching in the Animal World
Posted by Jason G. Goldman on May 12, 2011 Human infants have one important job during the first years of life, and that is to learn about the world and their culture from their parents and other caregivers. But what is learning? I’ve previously written that Hungarian developmental psychologists Gergely and Csibra have defined learning as the acquisition of new, generalizable knowledge that can…
Monday Pets: How Anteaters Decide
Posted by Jason G. Goldman on August 2, 2010 “But wait,” you say. “Anteaters aren’t pets!” Well, I didn’t think so either. But Salvador Dali had a pet anteater. And that’s good enough for me. Figure 1: Salvador Dali taking his pet anteater for a stroll. (Source) The Giant Anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, only eats ants and termites, making it a myrmecophage. (Hey, Alex Wild,…