Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like humans, by forming inferences about their surroundings—for instance, squirrels ...

Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like humans, by forming inferences about their surroundings—for instance, squirrels ...

The experiment was designed in order to see if the animals could make inferences through a series of trials. The scientists hypothesized, for example, that the rats would learn to wait longer for a 20 ...