Raccoon are clever, but are they as smart as a crow? The Aesop’s Fable test is an intelligence test named after the story in which a crow adds pebbles to water he can’t reach in order to bring the water level up to him. Researchers wondered if raccoons could learn the concept.
They were given a cylinder too tall for them to reach the bottom. There were marshmallows floating on the water. The experimenter showed the raccoons how to add stones to bring the water level up so they could reach the treats. Two of the eight animals learned to do it that way, but the researchers learned that you shouldn’t try to out-think a raccoon. One raccoon jumped on…The post Raccoons Pass Famous Intelligence Test- By Upending It appeared first on FeedBox.