The Social Architects
Fun fact: animals have their own culture and memory throughout their tribes.
They can navigate complex social relationships, recognize familiar faces, and understand group dynamics.
Fun fact: animals have their own culture and memory throughout their tribes.
They can navigate complex social relationships, recognize familiar faces, and understand group dynamics.
An African Elephant matriarch can remember the exact location of a distant water source and guide her herd to it. This species of elephants also grieve over their dead family members, suggesting empathy.
Bottlenose Dolphins have the longest social memory in the animal kingdom. They can recognize a former companion's "singature whistle" after more than 20 years of being apart from them.
Baboons and chimpanzees are examples of tactical deception, recognizing when other members of their tribe are friends, and "redirected aggression" which is attacking a rival's relative after a fight.