“I’ll steal from the rich and give to a poor bear – me!”
Cartoon
character, Yogi Bear
I have been reading an interesting book about the attempts of scientists to communicate with animals.
There is a lot of scientific debate and disagreement about how intelligent different animals are, and whether animal communication can be called language.
On the intelligence of bears, the writer mentioned a problem staff had at Yosemite national park in America. Nobody could seem to design a bin that would allow human tourists to put their rubbish into, which the bears would not be able to also access.
A
frustrated staff member said, “There is considerable overlap between the
intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest human tourists.”
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