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Originally Posted by ayu-smepai
Well here's a disturbing one
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That's a myth. It's not true, and even if it were true wouldn't mean much. Minor changes in chemical composition can have drastic effects. CO2 which you breathe all the time is one
atom away from CO, which is in fact exactly why CO kills you. Anyway:
- Ants invented agriculture, animal husbandry, slavery, warfare, and even ritualized dance warfare millions of years before humans did.
- Dolphins and chimpanzees have been observed to kill their own kind for no particular reason. They have murderers.
- Dolphins, orcas, elephants, humans, all the great apes and
magpies are the only animals known to recognize themselves in a mirror (as in they can tell it's a reflection). Human babies fail this test, as well as household pets like cats and dogs. Magpies are pretty damned smart.
- Magpies can learn from the mistakes of others. Magpies who observe the food of other magpies being stolen will very carefully hide their food in the future.
- Bees can count to 5, and communicate this number with other bees through some sort of gesture language, as measured by setting markers showing the way to food. After 5 they seem to be unable to communicate distances. It doesn't matter how far apart the markers are, so they're actually counting landmarks rather than somehow measuring distance.
- Bees can interpret symbols that they've been taught. They can learn to turn left or right in a maze based on signs, for example.
- Most of the world is covered in ocean. Most of the ocean is very deep. We haven't explored very much of it at all, and it contains life. We know more about the moon than we do about the largest habitat on Earth. We're more likely to find intelligent life down there than we are to in space (within a reasonable distance).