“Do Reptiles Get Too Cold To Think? | Extraordinary Animals | Our World”

Our World

2016

“Do Reptiles Get Too Cold To Think? | Extraordinary Animals | Our World”

Anna Wilkinson, a researcher at University of Lincoln, is out to disprove early studies in the 1960s which claimed that reptiles are not intelligent. She accomplishes this by proving that the reptiles which appeared sluggish and unintelligent during early studies were too cold to think. When the cold-blooded animals are observed in a warmer lab setting, their cognitive performance significantly improves.