Given that animals can't talk, I'm just mystified how anybody thinks that you can find out about consciousness in other creatures.
--Celia Heyes, Science, 25 June 1999
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We're the only species on the planet that knows what they are. We've only known it for a century or so -- because we developed science. And we developed science after we'd first developed religion and government and reading and writing. We know what we are. Dogs don't know they're dogs.
--Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995
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Chimpanzees have learned how to "fish" for termites using twigs they modify specifically for this purpose.
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