"We don't understand them," [Wendy Alexa] continued. "Try to make a
maze that will show how this creature thinks. We don't even understand
them enough to test them. Maybe mazes aren't the way to study them.
Science can only say so much. I know they watched me. They followed
me. But proving that intelligence is so difficult. There's nothing so
peculiar as an octopus."
Quoted by Sy Montgomery in The Soul of an Octopus.
Ha, I bet you thought I was talking about horses.
And in a way, I was. Some of the surprising recent research that has
recently come out about equine cognitive processing (using symbols to
indicate choices on blanketing, using glances to try to get people to
put treat bucket in paddock with horse, figuring out how to open a box
with hay by observing another horse) is the result of scientists
building tests based on better understanding of how a horse thinks and
communicates.
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