Animal intelligence

Marc Coleman · 06 Jul 1998, 11:53 · from urth-v0015.mbox · original

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From: Marc Coleman <marc.coleman at mwcia.org>
Subject: Re: (urth) Animal intelligence
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 11:53:52
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plus the smilodon he tames in UotNS nods when Severian addresses him...
At 09:40 AM 7/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>This is Sean Whalen (prion).
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>I know that a while back it was a fairly big point of contention about
>the intelligence of the animals of Urth.  Severian barely interacted
>with any animals that might have had intelligence, and clues in the
>text were hard to decipher.  Well, since the New Sun and Long Sun
>books are in the same universe, can't we use the case of Oreb the
>night chough?  He seems fairly intelligent, and people aren't
>surprised to hear him talk.  There's also the catachrest, of course.
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