Horses can plan ahead and think strategically, scientists find (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

They need to think strategically in order to survive attacks by predators in the wild???

Do they really? I think most prey animals default to predator = run, which seems sufficient in most situations

[-] booty@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

That's all well and good until there evolve predators that have complex brains and can think about how best to approach you such that you don't know they're there

If you think just running away from predators you see and otherwise putting absolutely no thought into the existence of predators is sufficient you would not last long in the wild lol

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

and otherwise putting absolutely no thought into the existence of predators

That's absolutely not what I said and that's also not what "Thinking ahead and planning strategically" entails

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