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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- What are some ways that animals communicate with each other?
- What are some things humans can do that animals can’t?
- Humans build buildings, but animals can build other things like nests.
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- An Asian elephant “plays” the xylophone.
- - What is the meaning of the quotation marks around “plays”?
- I don’t believe the elephant is really playing the instrument, but this is a word other people use, or it’s the best word I could think of to describe it.
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- Handout p. 138 - Answer the questions.
- Do you think a dolphin or an elephant is smarter? What other animals are very intelligent?
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- “For Darwin, the difference between human and animal intelligence was one of degree and not of kind.”
- A difference of degree means one thing is similar to another, but it’s more or less than the other.
- A difference of kind means one thing is a completely different type than another.
- The difference between the iPhone 1 and the iPhone 7 is a difference of degree.
- The difference between the iPhone (1 or 7) and the Nokia 1101 is a difference of kind.
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- Watch part of Joshua Klein’s TED Talk on the intelligence of crows
- https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows/
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- Homework: skim the text on p. 139-141 to find the answers to the main idea questions on p. 142
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