Kangaroos seek to communicate with us
Kangaroos seek to communicate with us
Undomested animals such as Australia's iconic marsupial may seek to interact with humans to help them solve problems, researchers report.
Those who had the chance to see the cult 1960s series Skippy the Kangaroo or its reruns may one day have dreamed of having a kangaroo for best friend. Or at least, to have real interactions with this iconic marsupial of Australia. But this could be less fictional than it seems.
In any case, this is what a study published on 16 December in Biology Letters suggests. It shows that "kangaroos are able to communicate intentionally with men, which would show greater cognitive abilities than previously thought," reports The Guardian.
To reach this conclusion, the researchers subjected eleven kangaroos living in captivity to an intractable test: they gave them food in a closed plastic box. "Alexandra Green, co-author of the study, explains that instead of giving up when they couldn't open the box, the vast majority of kangaroos turned to the researcher and then to the box, a gesture interpreted as a cry for help," the British daily reports.
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