(September 22, 2022 at 10:10 am)polymath257 Wrote:(September 22, 2022 at 4:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In a series of repeated tests, raccoons were able to open complex locks (‘complex’ meaning a lock requiring four or moves to open) in less than ten attempts 84% of the time. Once they learned to open a particular lock, they were able to do so even after the lock had been rearranged or turned upside down. AND they were able to remember how to do so for up to three years.
The trash pandas are going to take over.
Boru
Assuming the domesticated primates manage to destroy themselves, I would put raccoons as the most likely to evolve into a technological species. They are smart, have very dexterous hands, and solve problems socially.
So, apart from the hands, they're nothing like humans?
Dying to live, living to die.
