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- Rio, a seven-year-old California sea lion living at the University of California at Santa Cruz, thinks like a human. After learning to pair the silhouette of a crab with that of a tulip, and then the tulip with a radio, Rio makes a logical leap: she matches the crab with the radio.
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Rio the sea lion has scientists flipping out over her amazing memory. Several years ago, Rio was taught to look at three pictures, then match the two that were alike. The amazing part was that...
Nov 26, 2021 · Rio, a Californian sea lion living at the University of California at Santa Cruz, thinks like a human. After learning to pair the silhouette of a crab with that of a tulip, and then the tulip with a radio, Rio makes a logical leap: she matches the crab with the radio.
In this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, meet Rio, a captive California sea lion who has helped research biologists to better understand the cognitive abilities of this species. See how Rio has learned that certain sounds are associated with certain letters or numbers, and observe how she demonstrates the higher order reasoning skill of logic.
Oct 27, 2010 · As Rio grew up, she participated in a lot of behavioral experiments of learning and memory, and other cognitive tasks.
The sea lions learned to relate a group of ten letters together and a group of ten numbers together by forming connections between individual symbols within each category. Rio excelled at keeping track of these groups.
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Rio the Californian sea lion has been impressing scientists with her mental prowess for over 25 years and was the first non-human animal to demonstrate a level of logical thinking once found...
