From the "Nothing Special" Files -- Apes and Their Theory of Mind

This is just in from the laboratories of Nothing Special that I wrote about here the other day. Reports Karen Kaplan in the Los Angeles Times, "[H]umans' thinking abilities aren't quite as special as we'd like to think" (emphasis added). She knows that because of a new study in Science, "Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs."

Of all the creatures in the animal kingdom, only humans were given credit for being able to ascertain the unstated thoughts,...