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?

Question

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?

In: Biology

Answer 1

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.