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Honeycombe8

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8. Why would anyone think they don't? Humans have always underestimated...

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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 01:36 AM

Feb 2013

other animals (humans are animals, too!) and ancient civilizations. Remember how perplexed scientists were at how the Egyptians built the pyramids? It simply wasn't possible, with the skills and technology they had at that time! Yes, there were the pyramids as proof. Did aliens build them? Not really. We now know how they were built, and it's pretty simple, really. Turns out it was the modern human who was deficient in imaging how to build a pyramid because they were looking backward in technology; they couldn't imagine what could be done by people who viewed things from a perspective of being advanced (for the times).

I have no doubt whatsoever that my dog is using her imagination when she plays with her squeaky toy. She's imagining it's a small animal.

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Do animals have imagination? [View all] The Straight Story Feb 2013 OP

When our dogs used to stalk their toys, woo me with science Feb 2013 #1

Yes they do... Kalidurga Feb 2013 #2

Cats dream, too. Twitchy paws, lips, whiskers......little kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #9

A cat I had in the 1970s, a Tonkinese, used to take a rolled up tblue37 Feb 2013 #15

I think there's no doubt magellan Feb 2013 #3

If you spend time with animals, without the "professional detachment" we take on when Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #4

That is also why some of us don't kill them to earn a living. loudsue Feb 2013 #7

Probably wasn't such a nice thing to say, kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #10

A lot of people don't really have a choice. Until we can devote the time and resources Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #11

Add me to the not-built-for-it pecwae Feb 2013 #18

I'm sure that my Attack Cats do. They even have lucid dreams. slackmaster Feb 2013 #5

What or who imagined us? Does time and the universe think? Lint Head Feb 2013 #6

Why would anyone think they don't? Humans have always underestimated... Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #8

My late and much loved pecwae Feb 2013 #19

Yep, my cat imagines every night snooper2 Feb 2013 #12

My dogs obviously sit there and think about things XemaSab Feb 2013 #13

cat toys! KT2000 Feb 2013 #14

On my _Pet Tales_ website I tell about a cat I had who used to tblue37 Feb 2013 #16

that's great! n/t KT2000 Feb 2013 #20

This is my Buddy that regularly plays with, hides and catches, Nhrtuvdxi Feb 2013 #17