The ability to count and do maths of animals

Scientists found that some animals such as ants, dogs, and chimpanzees have certain counting skills.

Stanley Coren, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, conducted research to show that dogs are capable of distinguishing different numbers and can count from 1 to 5. The results are posted on the Mind Association website. Management in 2009, according to How Stuff Works.

For example, in case you place three dishes on the floor and cover them with curtains. If you take away a dish, the dog will pay attention to the dish being missing and spend time searching for it.

Some animals have the ability to count and perform calculations.(Photo: Think Stock).

In 2012, Jennifer Vonk, a psychologist at Oakland University, USA, conducted research on black bears . The results show that bears are capable of distinguishing the number of different dots on an image. They understand numbers to a certain extent.

Chimp's calculation skills are even more impressive. When Sally Boysen, a professor at Ohio University, USA, taught chimp counts, she found chimpanzees capable of performing addition and subtraction.

Some studies of mosquitofish fish indicate that these small fish can be counted in small quantities. But they have difficulty counting more than 4 or 5.

The most interesting is probably the ability to count the desert ants (desert ant) . Harald Wolf at the University of Ulm, Germany, and his colleagues discovered that desert ants somehow counted the number of their steps when leaving the nest to find their way back later. Ants can count in a certain way, through a special mechanism in the central nervous system.