{"id":4570,"date":"2016-02-02T23:44:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T04:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2016-02-05T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T19:39:26","slug":"ravens-on-their-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/ravens-on-their-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens on their mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4571\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/ncomms10506\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4571\" class=\"wp-image-4571\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3_Covering-cache-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"3_Covering-cache-1024x683\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A raven seen covering it\u2019s food cache with the surrounding substrate. (Image credit: Jana Mueller).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ravens possess the \u201cTheory of Mind\u201d, or the ability to predict the mental state of others, according to a new study. This is the first time the \u201cTheory of Mind\u201d has been confirmed in an animal other than humans or non-human primates. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers fed individual ravens in an enclosed study area, while playing raven sounds through a small peep-hole in the wall. When the birds heard the taped ravens, they hid their food as if there was a competitor watching them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors believe this indicates ravens can infer what a competitor may be able to see, without being able to see the competitor themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/ncomms10506\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature Communications\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>February 2<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas Bugnyar, Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravens possess the \u201cTheory of Mind\u201d, or the ability to predict the mental state of others, according to a new study. This is the first time the \u201cTheory of Mind\u201d has been confirmed in an animal other than humans or non-human primates. The researchers fed individual ravens in an enclosed study area, while playing raven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,114,917,1508],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-birds","tag-evolution","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1bI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}