Although chicks seem to be just a jumbled up mass of motion when they are hatched and trying to thrive.\u00a0 It turns out they can do something extraordinary … they can add small numbers.<\/p>\n
While this seems tiny and insignificant, it does mean that their brains are a little more finely developed than we give them credit for.<\/p>\n
Here’s a link to the scientific journal article<\/a>.\u00a0 To be honest, there’s a lot of text in this article, and it rambles on and on in scientific-ese.\u00a0 But I thought the idea was very interesting to read about anyhow.<\/p>\n The results of experiments 1 and 2 showed that, in the absence of any specific training, chicks spontaneously discriminated between two and three, in both cases preferring the larger stimulus set. … I’m pretty sure the pecking order concept starts really early, and has a HUGE impact on every single baby chick you raise.\u00a0 They’re definitely smarter than we might think.<\/p>\n Talk soon!<\/p>\n Kelson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although chicks seem to be just a jumbled up mass of motion when they are hatched and trying to thrive.\u00a0 It turns out they can do something extraordinary … they can add small numbers. While this seems tiny and insignificant, it does mean that their brains are a little more finely developed than we give … Continue reading Chicks Are Smarter Than We Thought … They Can Add too.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicken-news","tag-chicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHence chicks’ behaviour seemed to indicate an ability to perform additions, i.e. combining two or more quantitative representations (addends) to form a new representation (i.e. the sum).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n