Animals and memories of the past Bashny.Net

One of the features of human thought is the presence of episodic memory. We can go back to my mind in the past, analyze the individual episodes, which helps us to take into account past experience in our current zhizni.

Previously, it argued that animals have episodic memory. They are able to adapt, to learn, to adapt, but can not go back in my memory to the past sobytiyam.

However, a number of researchers Heinrich Heine University found, in their opinion, the presence of episodic memory in several animal species. So one man show chimps bananas, but did not give reach him. As a result, he was hiding it and go. Then the cage came another man, who did not know where the fruit. Chimpanzees showed him gesturing locate banana. This indicates that the monkey not only remember where the first person to put the banana, but could not explain it to another cheloveku.

Demonstrate excellent memory scrub jays blue. They hide food in different places, and then easily find it. They also consume perishable foods first, indicating that they remember where and what foods are hiding.

Source: novostiua.net/techniks/28768-mogut-li-zhivotnye-pomnit-proshloe.html