{"id":4085,"date":"2010-04-30T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2010-04-30T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:28:39","slug":"rotd-amazing-rats-naturally-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/30\/rotd-amazing-rats-naturally-selected\/","title":{"rendered":"ROTD :: Amazing rats \u00ab Naturally Selected"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The PLoS One study, conducted by Duarte Viana and colleagues at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci\u00eancia, Oeiras, Portugal, showed that rats were able to cooperate and adjust tactics depending on the strategy of their opponent, when put in a Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma scenario. The results shattered the idea that only humans can solve the Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma \u2013 and may bode a whole new approach to how we think about intelligence in other species.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.the-scientist.com\/2010\/03\/25\/amazing-rats\/\">Amazing rats \u00ab Naturally Selected<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PLoS One study, conducted by Duarte Viana and colleagues at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci\u00eancia, Oeiras, Portugal, showed that rats were able to cooperate and adjust tactics depending on the strategy of their opponent, when put in a Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma scenario. The results shattered the idea that only humans can solve the Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/30\/rotd-amazing-rats-naturally-selected\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ROTD :: Amazing rats \u00ab Naturally Selected&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-research","category-rotd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}