Now researchers have shown for the first time that an animal other than a human can remember the social context of a past event, and use this knowledge to adjust its behaviour and plan for the future.

ECONOMIST: Ethology

Using its Community Impact Platform to create a fundraising challenge for two local animal rescues, Causecast leveraged social media, real-time reporting, peer recognition, instant donation processing, automatic tracking, micro and macro funding abilities, and good old competition with incentives to fire up the team and get them engaged in giving back.

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The distance some humans place between themselves and the rest of the social animal kingdom, is amusing to me, and part of a culturally derived illusion from the byproducts of collective intelligence.

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Brooks wants to show us the real unconscious, but then he draws a veil over the undercurrents of ambition, sex, and violence that make our breed of social animal so dangerous and so interesting.

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