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Do animals think in any way like humans think?
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How do you measure the perception of an animal? It is hard enough for us to measure human thought patterns. The problem with humans is they tend to think animals sense the same way as themselves. However the range of animal senses is highly variable to our own.
Brain shape & size is very different and how they interpret their enviroment is very hard to establish. Really, all we have is reaction to stimulus and behaviour to measure and interpret! It's fascinating and quite a popular field of science! (Animal behaviour). The most human like mammal is of course the Chimpanizee, with almost 98% of it's DNA structure identical to that of a human. The social structure and behaviour is very similar to a human! Perhaps that means they think very similar to us, or might evolve to do so!
(Sorry if that was a bit scientific! Scientist alert!)
Brain shape & size is very different and how they interpret their enviroment is very hard to establish. Really, all we have is reaction to stimulus and behaviour to measure and interpret! It's fascinating and quite a popular field of science! (Animal behaviour). The most human like mammal is of course the Chimpanizee, with almost 98% of it's DNA structure identical to that of a human. The social structure and behaviour is very similar to a human! Perhaps that means they think very similar to us, or might evolve to do so!
(Sorry if that was a bit scientific! Scientist alert!)
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