Numeracy: can animals tell numbers? (Can animals count?)APrime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease – providing the ratio is big enough – but do other animals share ...
says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease – providing the ratio is big enough – but do other animals share this ability?”From this line, we can infer that primates’ capabilities rely
Primates are not the only animals whose numerical capacities rely on ratio, however. While at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, Claudia Uller, a psychologist now at the University of Essex in the UK, wondered whether our more distant relatives could also distinguish large numbers from ...
It is clear that while non-human animals’ cognitive abilities are clearly different than those of humans, these differences, to quote Darwin, are “of degree and not of kind.” Numeracy is the broad range of numerical applications used by humans and other animals. At its most basic level, ...
Numeracy: can animals tell numbers? (Can animals count?)APrime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease – providing the ratio is big enough – but do other animals share ...