Animals that look cute with their looks and types, or that we are attracted to because they are pets, can also attract all the attention with their intelligence. So, could animals look cute to us not only with their memorization or motivational behaviors, but also with their cognitive behaviors? Or would that be scary?
We are more inclined to love and possess animals as they are loyal to us, or cute in appearance, for the goofy they do. After all this comes intelligence. If it were the other way around, it would be possible to adopt and love spiders, ants, baboons, crows or raccoons more. While some animals have less intelligence than we think, others can be more intelligent than we think.
“The important thing is not the size of the brain, but what can be done with that brain”
Spiders are animals that are known to be intelligent but are not able to love and own because they are not suitable for this, both due to their appearance and nature. According to scientists’ research, spiders are smarter than we think. Information from a newly published spider diversity study demonstrates this.
Dimitar Dimitrov, an arachnologist and evolutionary biologist from the Bergen University Museum in Norway, stated that spiders are prone to display cognitive behaviors as opposed to motivational and rote-based behaviors. “There is a general idea. But I think spiders defy that general idea. Some little things can actually do very complex things,” said Fiona Cross, an arachnologist at the University of Canterbury. gave place.
In researches, it has been determined that spiders use methods such as playing mind games, making plans, assessing risks in order to survive and hunt, and have human characteristics such as being surprised.
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