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Domestication is often thought to have a negative impact on the cognition of animals.
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Domesticated animals deemed less cognitively capable than their wild relatives.
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We reviewed 88 studies comparing cognitive abilities in domesticated and wild animals.
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No clear impact of domestication on cognition was found.
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Need to consider some constraints when interpreting domestication-cognition links.
That is from a new paper by Vitor Hugo Bessa Ferreira et.al., via Michelle Dawson.
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