Question: Do you attempt to teach different animals?

Laurel Fogarty answered on 17 Jun 2010:

Well yes and no! I have studied animal intelligence by testing different animals to see what they can do and what they cannot. This is a really amazing area of study.

Right now I am interested in how animals teach each other, how does information pass from one animal to another if we don’t interfere by teaching them at all? If we can figure this out we will be able to find out which animals have culture and traditions and how they spread across populations. In turn I think this will tell us about human culture how it comes about and how it spreads.