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Empathy Is For the Birds

Posted by samzenpus on from the polly-want-to-make-an-emotional-connection? dept.

grrlscientist writes "Common Ravens have been shown to express empathy towards a 'friend' or relative when they are distressed after an aggressive conflict — just like humans and chimpanzees do. But birds are very distant evolutionary relatives of Great Apes, so what does this similarity imply about the evolution of behavior?"

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  1. Raven... by X0563511 · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Common" Ravens are among the most intelligent birds around, if you don't count parrots.

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  2. Re:well yeah by masmullin · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Thought is language, language is thought" is what your trying to say. It's why a large vocabulary is an important measure of intelligence; because if you lack the words to think with, you lack the very thought.

  3. Emesene by cciRRus · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm using Emesene now on Lucid and so far, I'm happy with it.

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  4. Re:damn by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    They did. Open up USC, select Installed Software, search for and select Empathy and press the remove button.
    Once that's finished, select Get New Software, search for Pidgin, select Pidgin Internet Messenger and press the Install button.

    You're done. Automatically hooks into the MeMenu.

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