Why do animals often not understand large sticks can’t go through holes shorter than them if they aren’t going in the long way?
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Because the concepts of size and shape are not usually relevant for their day to day lives. The average dog has the intelligence equivalency of a three-year-old human but humans practice with shape games from a very young age. My 20-month-old son is starting to get the hang of shape games but still can’t figure out why the heart-shaped block won’t go into the hole upside down.
Basically, they don’t know any bettet, don’t need to know any better, but could be taught to.
Because they are dumb. Animals are only as intelligent as they have to be to survive just long enough to reproduce. Animals that don’t literally live or die based on their capacity to fit objects into holes aren’t going evolve the capacity to learn that big things don’t fit in small holes because they simply don’t have to.
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