“Bats are smart. Not dumb, like everybody says.”
Thought To Be Exclusive to Humans: Scientists Uncover Remarkable Cognitive Skills of Fruit Bats
Scitech Daily | August 5, 2024 | Tel-Aviv UniversityA team of researchers from Tel Aviv University tracked free-ranging Egyptian fruit bats to investigate whether animals possess complex cognitive abilities, previously attributed only to humans. Their study, recently published in Current Biology, focused on episodic memory traits, mental time travel, planning ahead, and delayed gratification, leading to highly compelling findings.
“For many years the cognitive abilities to recall personal experiences (episodic memory) and plan ahead were considered exclusive to humans.”
He don’t know me very well, do he?
Mental Time Travel? Interesting. I was just MTT’ing yesterday back to when I was such a dork and blew it with my first girlfriend. (wiping away tears)
My memory is very episodic these days.
Nothing compared to all of Taylor Swift’s different eras…
Episodic? My memories now come with a laugh track…