BrikoXM to Interesting SharesEnglish · 3 months agoHorses can plan ahead and think strategically, scientists findwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up199arrow-down1external-linkHorses can plan ahead and think strategically, scientists findwww.theguardian.comBrikoXM to Interesting SharesEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
Team hopes findings will help improve equine welfare after showing cognitive abilities include being ‘goal-directed’
minus-squarewhenthebigonefinallyhitsla@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoit looks like somebody in this story doesn’t understand the difference between strategy and tactics, which definitely seems like quite an important distinction in this case
minus-squaretastysnacks@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoWhy is that important? If you want to separate the two, the strategy is obvious.
minus-squarewhenthebigonefinallyhitsla@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agothinking tactically is short term, thinking strategically is long-term, especially with the “plan ahead” in the title nothing about the test described in the article implies that horses are capable of doing that though
it looks like somebody in this story doesn’t understand the difference between strategy and tactics, which definitely seems like quite an important distinction in this case
Why is that important? If you want to separate the two, the strategy is obvious.
thinking tactically is short term, thinking strategically is long-term, especially with the “plan ahead” in the title
nothing about the test described in the article implies that horses are capable of doing that though