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2017
September
Neat News 2017-272 (added 2017-09-29)
Raccoons can Understand Water Displacement
Public Domain by David Menke
| In a fable Aesop discusses birds' ability to understand that stones can displace water and that it is possible this way to raise a water level by dropping stones into the water until the water is reachable. Scientists have now studied raccoons in order to see whether they are able to learn this. Most of the participants in the study were. |