Sentence examples for capacities of animals from inspiring English sources

Bermúdez doesn't face the computational complexity of the perceptual capacities of animals.

Behaviorists tested the capacities of animals not through naturalistic observation but through highly controlled stimulus response experiments.

He takes delight in producing evidence of the extraordinary capacities of animals.

But Allen & Bekoff (1997, ch. 8) suggest that progress might be made by investigating the capacities of animals to adjust to their own perceptual errors.

To understand them as images of something distinct from us is to treat them as "ideas" rather than simply as "sensations," and that is an operation that is so far from being automatic that it exceeds the capacities of animals.

The so-called "cognitive revolution" that took place during the latter half of the 20th century has led to many innovative experiments by comparative psychologists and ethologists probing the cognitive capacities of animals.

And finally, it's arguable that (again like the behaviourists before him) Bermúdez looks in the wrong place when he tries to estimate the cognitive capacities of animal minds.

Thus, we compared the relative capacities of animal-derived cell lysates to phosphorylate tyrosine-containing peptide substrates with lysates obtained from the other two eukaryotic kingdoms.

But the capacity of animals to feel pain makes this case harder than your editorial suggested.

This may indicate different deposition mechanisms and exposure of PBDEs and also possible different biotransform capacity of animals.

For centuries, scientists have been both fascinated and beguiled by the regenerative capacity of animals such as flatworms, starfish and salamanders [1, 2].