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starik@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• DempstersBox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Coyotes are smart.

  I’ve watched a crow check both ways for traffic before flying low across the road.

  It’s not implausible at all. Are you familiar with the idea of a cargo cult?

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Coyotes are smart.

    I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn’t even catch a bird.

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    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • starik@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?

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  • adj16@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nah, come on. Don’t be ridiculous. Looking for traffic is one thing - checking an arbitrary box for a specific image just because humans do and understanding it immediately and without mistake is another. I don’t doubt it is possible to train a coyote to understand this, but there’s just no way this happened as stated in the post.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I live amongst coyotes, and I see them almost every day. What are you taking about? You’re asserting a coyote can teach itself to use a crosswalk?

    Why? Why would a coyote do this? What is the reward?

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• Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I’ve ever experienced in my life (so FAR…).

  It’s crazy how 2016 feels like “a couple years ago” right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like “a couple decades ago” ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

  I miss when AI was not yet a thing…

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  • starik@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sadly, I heard all subway dogs got eaten by the alligators in the sewers.

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn’t seem to exist.

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  • starik@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists

    Especially with video to show us.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You mean dogs can’t be taught things?

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  • starik@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      1. They don’t have to. Unless you think pushing a button in reach is a truly impossible feat to overcome.
      2. It’s close enough to a dog.

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      • starik@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Is that what the story claimed? That a coyote just pushed a button?

        Coyotes are not as trainable as dogs because they didn’t evolve alongside humans for thousands of years.

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• rethnor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But I want it to be true!

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