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2 weeks agoCooperative meerkats, guide ants, and dining-room monitor hens: Animals can teach, too
There are two main reasons. The first is that ethology is a very young discipline. Although humans have always observed animal behavior, and there are records of its study dating back to Aristotle, modern science has been taking this field seriously for less than a century. Therefore, at the beginning of the 2000s, hardly any animal behaviors reminiscent of teaching had been documented.
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