| ▲ | MengerSponge 5 hours ago |
| You might be old enough to have been taught that Humans are tool-using apes. That's tragically incomplete: lots of apes use tools. Birds use tools. And now, cows use tools! Cow tools: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0n127y74go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools |
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| ▲ | drakythe 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I was homeschooled in a particular conservative area. Much of what I have been taught was... woefully inadequate, we'll say. Lots of my learning has come in university and afterwards, so what I've picked up is pretty obviously incomplete and leaves me with many unknown unknowns in this area. Today has begun filling in many of those gaps so they get to be known unknowns now! |
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| ▲ | hearsathought 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Lots of my learning has come in university and afterwards That's true for pretty much everybody. Homeschooled or not. You think everyone shocked by this news was all homeschooled? | | |
| ▲ | drakythe 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No, but I do think it more likely they got a more accurate world history class somewhere along the line. I was taught creationism thanks to the conservatism nature of my family and the area I grew up in. It took a long while to know and accept the world (and universe) is as old as it is. | |
| ▲ | dpc050505 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm relearning a lot of stuff I was told visiting natural history museums as a kid reading this thread and the linked articles. I doubt I'm the only person in this forum who had a couple of educated parents who wanted their kids to learn more than what is taught in basic public k-12 curriculum. |
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| ▲ | zahlman 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika_(cow) might be a better Wikipedia link. Honestly I would have expected a pig or horse to be discovered to use tools, rather than a cow. Cattle are generally... not thought of as particularly intelligent. |
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| ▲ | BirAdam 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, most cattle aren't given much to stimulate them, and they're bred for meat production and complacency. People aren't exactly looking to make the life of cattle fun or enjoyable. | | |
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