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Yes, Baboons Can Also Reason By Analogy

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2889

Duration

00:07:00

Production year

2011

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Director(s)

Marcel DALAISE

Summary

At the CNRS Center for Primatology located in Rousset, France, Joël Fagot, a researcher from the "Laboratory for cognitive psychology" studies the animal cognition through a group of 29 baboons. He has just published a paper with an American homologue which demonstrates that baboons are able to reason by analogy without language.

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