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This is worse than I would have thought:
After two months of practice, researchers say, the degus can move the rake as smoothly and efficiently as croupiers in any Las Vegas casino.
So they can live two months without food, too, it seems. We’re fucked.
Patton you crack me up.
I don’t sweat rodents, however clever they may be, because I can step on them.
As the article reinforces, several primate species are quite adept at learning and toolmaking, and at least two of those species are readily capable of tearing my limbs from their sockets at will.
Crows are smart too, but I don’t sweat them either. They just want my eyes, after all, and they can haggle with the feral cats over them when I’m dead.
For my dinars the creepiest non-human intelligence, hands down, is that of the octopus. They can solve how-to-get-the-food type of puzzles readily. They are very strong for their size. And, as discussed earlier, would/will make perfect assassins, in that having no skeletons they can jam themselves into any tiny crevice and wait for their victim.
Hmmm… interesting. Personally, I’m waiting for a dolphin to go up to a fishing boat and smack the crap out of the captain…
Sunrunner,
That’s not how dolphins do. They’re more subtle, and I think more intimidating, animals for that.
They might, for example, find a National Geographic film crew, and pound the sh*t out of a big shark in front of the cameras. You know, just to show they can.
But as for commercial fishing, yeah we do need better controls on the harvesting of dolphins, because- as discussed at great lengths here over the past few years- they may very well be our only allies in the briny deep when the robots come.
The octopii, I fear, could go either way.
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