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Originally Posted by Aaron_S
You make sense but a paper should be written if this is fully true.
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Yes but no one is writing one
It seems that more research is done on mammals & birds than reptiles. I mean they only discovered that varanids have venom in what, 2006? How did they miss THAT all these years?
The problem with snakes is that they are rather difficult to read. They are very alien compared to us, no legs, no ears, their behaviour is quite different from other animals. I think most animals are more intelligent than we give them credit, they are always surprising us.
I know that the brain size = intelligence is a myth (for the most part), considering that mice can be trained to do all kinds of tricks and have the ability to figure things out, yet some animals with larger brains don't *seem* as intelligent.
Even my FISH (an animal that most people consider to be stupid) have memory and recognition ability. If they were wild, they would flee from a big creature such as a human, but they recognize that I mean food, and become especially excited when they see the red food container.
So if fish can recognize things, then surely we can't rule out that snakes can too? I know I overuse the "they recognize the feeding tongs" thing, but it
does show some type of memory recall and recognition ability, no matter how primitive.
Anyways, I'm rambling. I could talk about this stuff forever.
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