Message-Id: <v03102805b0baddb9550b@[194.109.13.153]>
In-Reply-To: <3495040C.3088@catskill.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 14:17:57 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Ton Maas <tonmaas@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Milk Bottles & Animal IQ
> I seem to recall a similar story in the southwestern United states
>about coyotes and milk bottles, it might have been part of a Walt Disney
>special many years ago. We have the crows story too, only I think we
>have a lower number for how high they can count.
I think Valla is correct. Seven is the figure Koehler and his fellow German
gestalt-psychologists from the twenties came up with on the basis of their
experiments with jackdaws.
Ton
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