Many animals have an ability to process and represent numbers—arguably a form of counting
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“Obviously, they’re assessing the number of individuals in their groups for their everyday life situations,” Nieder says. “So the capability to discriminate numbers has to have a strong survival and reproduction benefit.”, an ornithologist at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, agrees that many animals have “sophisticated ways of measuring or estimating abundance.”
. “It’s absolutely fascinating that they can estimate something like that. We don’t know how they do it.”