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- From: rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)
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- Subject: Re: Lorenz and Number Recognition in Birds
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:49:56 GMT
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- In article <1ju46d$fc2@spool.mu.edu> johns@m.mscs.mu.edu (John Simms) writes:
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- >Also, what else is known about number recognition in animals? How much
- >"mathematics" can animals do, especially chimpanzees or gorillas?
-
- Look for recent work by Tetsuro Matsuzawa--a couple of relevant
- examples:
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- Matsuzawa, T. (1985). "Use of Numbers by Chimpanzee", _Nature_,
- 315:57-59.
-
- and
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- Matsuzawa, T., Asano, T., Kubota, K., and Murofushi, K. (1986).
- "Aquisition and Generalization of Numerical Labelling by a
- Chimpanzee", in D.M. Taub, and F.A. King, (eds.) _Current
- Perspectives in Primate Social Dynamics_ Von Nostrand: Reinhold,
- New York.
-
- Matsuzawa studies chimpanzees both in the lab and in the wild. In his
- lab, he has not only taught a few chimpanzees to count (one of them,
- Ai, was up to 9 or 10 when he was here last year--she can probably go
- higher now), but he's also demonstrated that they can understand such
- concepts as transitivity. He does really good work, and I encourage
- you to look into it. It's also possible that you'll find reference to
- Lorenz' bird work in Matsuzawa's papers.
-
- >| John C. Simms | Internet........: johns@mscs.mu.edu |
-
- Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)
-