Summary: A Murder Of Crows

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The ability for an animal to reason and have rational thought has been highly represented by researching crows. Crows have shown on numerous occasions through many experiments that they maintain the ability to access experiences and choose their actions based on said experiences. For example, in the documentary, A Murder of Crows, it was shown that crows had the ability to recognize faces of those who had captured them, and then would go on to inform their fellow crows of the very person who committed such an atrocity. They showed that they had rational control of their actions by swooping in and intimidatingly cawing when they saw someone who had offended them. They accessed a sense, in this case, a memory, and reasoned that it was best that they attempt to persuade the intruder to leave. The ability for a crow to reason was also demonstrated by its ability to determine which object to choose to get a reward. The crows were shown two sets of images. One picture would result in them earning a treat, while the other would give nothing. The crows could reason …show more content…

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Psychology sheds light on a study with the goal to test if mice had the capability to manifest empathy. At completion of this study, it was found that mice who “observe a cagemate given a noxious stimulus, or in pain, are more sensitive to painful stimuli than control mice who observe an unfamiliar mouse similarly treated” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015). This goes to show that these mice have theory of mind, which according to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is “how we ascribe mental states to other persons and how we use the states to explain and predict the actions of those other persons” (Marraffa, n.d.). Basically, it means that the mice can sense what the other mice are feeling, and that they are in pain. This reveals that the emotion that they have is connected directly to an

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