Professor Johnson mentioned the relatively unknown intelligence of birds like the crow and I was moved to further explore this claim. I found this link, in which Dr. Chris Bird acknowledges the problem solving abilities of the crow- an animal often overlooked in terms of intelligence-in raising water level in order to obtain food. It is clear that animals are not machines that reproduce, eat, and die, but to what extend do we still underestimate their capabilities? Elephants can paint, chimps can imitate, dolphins can perform, birds can mock (and possibly understand) speech. So how can one deny animals' capabilities to produce art-a product emerging from, as Dewey points out, natural experience-when they are perhaps the most emerged in "natural" environments and predicaments?
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