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TIL rats can distinguish between Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It seems really weird to assume that rats don't have linguistic skills given everything we've been learning recently about non-human communication, coupled with the fact that they're extremely social and will not stop chattering away about who knows what. I think a more solitary animal would be better suited to indicating that language and categorization skills may be unrelated, which is unfortunate because they're much harder to work with.