Episode 242
Primate cognition
Sun, 2017-Dec-31 01:56 UTC
Length - 1:44
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With 260,650 views on Saturday, 30 December 2017 our article of the day is Primate cognition.
Primate cognition is the study of the intellectual and behavioral skills of non-human primates, particularly in the fields of psychology, behavioral biology, primatology, and anthropology.
Primates are capable of high levels of cognition; some make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays; some have sophisticated hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception; they can recognise kin and conspecifics; they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some relational syntax, concepts of number and numerical sequence.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:56 UTC on Sunday, 31 December 2017.
For the full current version of the article, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_cognition.
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