New Podcast: Lizards Can Learn by Imitation

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Photo: André Karwath, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC-BY-SA-2.5 license.Reptiles aren’t exactly known for their smarts. But maybe they’re just the victims of bad press. A new study shows lizards are capable of social learning through imitation, an ability previously thought to be limited to mammals and birds.
Listen to my latest Experimental Podcast here: Lizard See, Lizard Do: First Evidence of Imitation in a Reptile.
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