Citation
Balcombe, Jonathan (2017) Chicken of the sea. Animal Sentience 17(11)
Commentary Type
Invited Commentary
Thread
Lori Marino, The inconvenient truth about thinking chickens
Abstract
Marino summarizes research showing that chickens perform cognitively and emotionally at a higher level than previously assumed. Here, I describe capacities of teleost fishes that parallel those of chickens, including the ability to recognize human faces, perspective-taking, and referential communication. Research on chickens and on fishes reveals an emerging trend in cognitive ethology: abilities once thought limited to a scant few highly intelligent non-humans may actually occur broadly across taxa.
DOI
10.51291/2377-7478.1233
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