Week 5 Twitter update
- jiachep
- Apr 30, 2021
- 2 min read
This week since the requirements for Twitter changes, I start to find people who are also interested in animal protection and rights, and people who are fans of animal researches. I found that it is really helpful for me to follow these people because they usually follow a lot of other researchers or animal protection organizations. I can find a lot of new accounts in their following lists that are helpful to me. This week I mainly focused on finding more researches and proofs about animal consciousness and their intelligence level. What is new to me is that I used to think although there are a few species which are proven to be conscious, I still believed that it is just an abnormal stuff in the natural world, that most animal species are still unconscious and couldn't even recognize themselves in the mirror. I was wrong. It seems like consciousness is a very common thing in natural world, and even plants can also emit chemicals to express their "feelings". Besides, all species of animals seem to have some level of intelligence, and it is also a common thing for animals to make tools, just like human. I thought that was unique to human but I was wrong again on that.
In the blogs which I responded this week, I found that some of my classmates are also interested in consciousness and intelligence of animals. Some of them chose to search for social communication about animals, others chose to search for consciousness and intelligence. My mind is also gradually changing throughout the quarter about animals, that now I believe they are more complicated than we thought. Besides, most people agree with me that the library searching tool is helpful for our papers. I'll definitely use it frequently in the future.
Anthony's Review of the Annotated Bibliographies
1) All of your resources seem to be all research articles and they seem to be about a decade within a date. The oldest one being 2002 and the newest being 2011 and all are related ideas about a specific species of animals like crows and their experiments.
2)All the annotations do cover the basics such as the author names and credentials, the summary and also the results and conclusion.
3) The page is very appealing, however the format such as the font is kind of hard to read. I can distinguish ti, but I would need to look at the screen a bit closer to read it.
Some things I liked was the…
CESIA'S REVIEW OF THOMAS' RESEARCH AGENDA PAGE:
These three sources all look to be research articles since they all have experiments and results as well as conclusions. These articles are also relatively recent, being around the early 2000's. These articles also all seem to be connected through not only experiments with crows but also how crow behavior can reflect on their intelligence.
The annotations do cover the basics since they all have the authors mentioned, summary of the study, results, and conclusions. These annotations have sufficient details that help the reader get the main idea of each article.
This page looks straight to the point as there is a title and an explanation as to what it is dedicated for,…