Real Life Waterbe?!?

Well, not quite. Yet. They are green, so they can't be Waterbe. But we do have intelligent lizards. Look:

Image by Manual Leal, Duke University

This is a lizard solving a feeding puzzle designed for birds. Birds are a bit more intelligent that reptiles, so these reptiles must be pretty smart.

Basically, what happens is there are two caps: a yellow one and a blue one. Underneath the blue one, there is a worm. Underneath the yellow onbe, there isn't a worm.

To get the food, the lizard needs to use its intelligence to flip the caps over until it finds the one with food under it. It can then eat the worm, and then wait until the next day when it is hungry again.

The researchers found that, form day-to-day, the lizards where able to figure out how to flip the cap and figure out which cap contained food, even with a waiting period of 24 hours.

At least they won't develop bipedalism and war, right guys? Guys? Where is everyo

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