{"id":381301,"date":"2017-09-29T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=60791021a3326e2ad03b32dd8e4ec346"},"modified":"2017-09-29T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:07:12","slug":"raccoons-solve-an-ancient-puzzle-but-do-they-really-understand-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=381301","title":{"rendered":"Raccoons solve an ancient puzzle, but do they really understand it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been using an ancient Greek fable written by Aesop as inspiration to test whether birds and small children understand cause and effect relationships. In &#8220;The Crow and the Pitcher,&#8221; a thirsty crow realises it should drop stones into a pitcher in order to raise the water level high enough so that the bird is able to drink it. A group of US scientists led by Lauren Stanton of the University of Wyoming have now extended this body of work to study raccoon intelligence. Their research in Springer&#8217;s journal Animal Cognition is the first to use the Aesop&#8217;s Fable paradigm to assess if mammalian carnivores understand the principles of water displacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been using an ancient Greek fable written by Aesop as inspiration to test whether birds and small children understand cause and effect relationships. In &#8220;The Crow and the Pitcher,&#8221; a thirsty crow realises it should drop stones into a pi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381302,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381301\/revisions\/381302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}