Ok /an/, I have an idea. Do you think it would be possible, to train an animal... to train other animals. Then the newly trained animals would go and train other animals, who would train even more animals, who would train yet more animals, and so on and so forth. Hypothetically, every single animal of that type in the world could obey your every command. World domination, anyone?
>>2369273
Rats will readily teach other rats about life skills, safety and foods they can eat.
But you can't train them to train others, however they play follow the leader readily when they witness something like litter training.
The spread of behavior is quite rapid, but no, you can't dominate the world with rats because they already dominated it.
I've been trying to learn a bit about quantum information.
I wonder if it can be said that natural selection is the act of life at the molecular level learning. Replication then could be analogized as memory.
But this is analogy. I'm not sure it would hold up as strict examples of the phenomenon.
>>2369273
Great Tits teach each other how to open milk bottles, and about how bats are helpless to getting their skulls cracked open for a brain buffet when they hibernate.
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/09/09/great-tits-murderous-rapacious/
>>2369335
>posting gore images on a blue board
M8 you're the only tit here
>>2369273
I suppose you never played the "Pass the word" game in school? You would end up with the same result, if you could hypothetically train animals to train other animals.