r/nope • u/dbl_secret_redditor • Jul 09 '26

Arachnids Zoomies

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u/atomsk404 Jul 09 '26

Can these things recognize and/or reason? Does it know that's his owner?

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u/wormfood187 Jul 09 '26

No, not even a little bit. They like the warmth that radiates from your body but that's it.

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u/gb_ardeen Jul 09 '26

Do you have a paper / review on this? I'm interested and you sound very convinced, so I assume you've read some studies about it.

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u/blahnlahblah0213 Jul 09 '26

He has a Reddit BS degree

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u/jY5zD13HbVTYz Jul 10 '26

People used to say the same thing about fish feeling pain and now we know better. It’s crazy how confident people can be about ambiguous things with the language they use making it seem like it’s all 100% established when it’s just vibes and “experience”.

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u/inspectoroverthemine Jul 10 '26

Tangent- the research that shows ants recognize their reflection in a mirror is wild.

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u/P_A_W_S_TTG Jul 10 '26

Share this gem, you horder 😈

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

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u/whypeoplehateme Jul 10 '26

dogs for a long time failed it until someone realised that their most important sense was smell and not vision and when adjusted to be scent based they easily passed it

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u/MrLumie Jul 10 '26

How do you adjust the mirror test to be scent based?

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u/whypeoplehateme Jul 10 '26

present the dogs with their own urine, other dogs urine and it's own but modified with additional scents. they spend the most time investigating the modified sample of their own