Just a fun story: We got a new leather couch and my dad didn't want our doggo to lie on it, cause she has sharp claws. She was confused at first, but somehow realised that it was the leather that she wasn't allowed to jump on. The next thing we saw was her sitting on a pillow ON the couch, with her body curled up tight just to make sure that no part of her touches the couch. She even gave us a look like "Technically I'm not on the couch!)
"It's that trait that makes you work hard and make responsible decisions..." me: *looking uncomfortably around* "Yes. Yes, as a human, I clearly have that trait. Yes..."
I think most ppl who spend some time with other animals have felt this. There are a few stray cats in my neighborhood and they definitely have different personalities. One of them has always been pretty social with humans since he was a kitten. He loves attention and is very playful, even as an adult. There's another one who's more cautious and slow to warm up to ppl.
The next thing you're going to tell me is Humans are animals and we evolved from similar based species.... Seriously though, My mind went to squirrels and they stashing food for the winter.
I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned. I guess maybe that's not something that distincts squirrels from other squirrels though. So it's a species thing and not a personality thing. But maybe if we looked at what kind of food they stored and how neat it was that would be a way to measure it?
@@UshioKiss We might be able to measure how vigilant individual squirrels are-- do they spend a more or less time observing an area for potential squirrel spies before hiding their nuts?
Althea Unertl aha! Yes and squirrel spies. And maybe even trickery. Bury the nuts here and then dig them up and relocate them to the secret stash area when nobody is looking.
exactly, that’s why Brit *didn’t* say it was a key metric that separated us from animals; it was just a thing past biologists thought was different between humans and animals, but that some humans had a lot of and other humans had less of, and some humans probably had none whatsoever of... that’s how she implied that The Big Five worked. if you hadn’t already guessed, i have 100% of my The Big Five points invested in the Neuroticism category 😅
I wouldn’t. I have alot of trouble figuring out my future because well my interests just aren’t viable enough for a job.. i like writing stories for example yet unless you want to self publish books as a hobby you can’t do anything with it.. and journalism won’t work either because i’m a huge introvert... so doing interviews is just a big nope,..
Quite a while ago, we had a big black cat--and this was when cats still went outdoors. When ever one of us would pull into the driveway, he would come tearing across the yard meowing. Before you say he just wanted in to be fed, not necessarily. Sometimes he would accompany you into the house, but often he would greet you, get scratches and go back about his business. He was the guard cat--or maybe greeting cat--and that was his job. He was conscientious.
I wholeheartly agree. When I was an elementary school child, our cat always welcomed me back home. I walked home, but it was always around the same time. She did that just for me, not my brother or my parents, even though my mom was the one feeding him, but I was the only one playing with him. Maybe he saw me as one of his kittens?
I can say our dog is definitely conscientious! He seems to express Shame when he does something he’s not supposed to do (like use the bathroom in the house) and gets on the cats when he knows they’re misbehaving! For instance he barks at them if he sees them try to scratch on the furniture, likely because he sees us scold them when they do so.
One of my cats is definitely capable of planning ahead. He would pretend to want to go outside to lure my other cat into wanting to go outside. Once they were both outside, he would immediately return inside. Took me longer than I care to admit to realize he just wanted the house to himself and manipulated everyone around him to reach his goals.
I feel like humans aren't trying to distinguish ourselves as the "most special". I feel like we're always looking for creatures like us. That's why this is exciting.
noodle dew i mean i am.. it exites me because i prefer being around animals over being with other humans mainly because humans often judge you and i can never grasp what’s going on in their heads.. animals however it’s easier for me to understand them
A pair of birds nested in a tree in front of my house. It noticed us watching and used a vine to obscure our view of the nest and the three baby birds inside
I have had a horse and a dog that both had a sense of humor, they played tricks on other animals and on people just to observe the reaction. The horse was an American Saddlebred, the dog was a shelter-rescue pit bull.
Had a Dalmatian, and some ten years later, a Cockateil. With both had an occasion.where we had to leave them home alone, (leaving Fri, back on Sun.) Both times left plenty of water, and food in case of unforeseen delays.( The dog was outside w/a dog house). Both critters did not eat a speck of food until we returned. Sure seemed like they were planning ahead, in case we never came back.
@@Starfloofle one of my childhood dogs went on a hunger strike when we went away on a visit to grandma's. One of my aunties stayed home with him but he didn't eat, ended up at the vet, i.v.ed and fed by a tube...after that he came with and we drove to visit.
My parents used to have a pretty introverted dog. In fact it seemed almost like it had autism. He kept to himself, almost never barked, he probably barked only a few handfuls of times in his life, and then it was usually just a single bark seemingly more an expression of suprise than a wish to communicate. He was intelligent and could learn tricks but he was only motivated by treats and completely ignored social rewards like praise. He had a special interest in horses which he liked to loook at and seemed comfortable around, and he liked to chase rabbits and hares and other smaller animals. But most dogs and other animals and human children he was rather indifferent to or uncomfortable with. I think he liked horses and adult humans, the older the better because they are calm and more predictable.
Yeah... I took the MBTI for our pomeranian. I figured it would work since it focuses more on an individual’s function in society more than their characteristics. He’s an ESFP..
A teacher at uni (ANU) in 2002 told us that when they played back lion calls on speakers, lionesses would go out to show off the intruders. Depending upon who they were with their behaviour differed. If they were with a lioness who was known to actively go out and defend, then they just went off and defended without checking, however, if they were with a lioness who was hesitant or lazy they would go out a bit, wait, turn their head to look at them, move on further, wait a bit for them to catch up, go on a bit, pause and turn, ... as if they knew the personality of the other lioness was not as conscientious. 2002 we knew this.
i once visited a public aquarium that had a shallow petting tank with stingrays (with stingers removed) and small dogfish sharks. all of the sharks congregated in the middle of the tank, out of reach of any people. the stingrays orbited around the edge of the tank where folks could get to them. none actively avoided contact. most accepted people touching them, but did not prolong the contact. a few seemed to enjoy being petted, and one or two would actually hurl themselves up on the walls of the tank if the person who was petting them gave up too early. i gave one a full five-ten minutes' worth of attention and i still got the 'more please' behavior when i got up to leave. had no idea the 'lesser' critters had such variations of personality.
"animals don't plan", i think sometimes researchers try searching too deep for a sign of what they are looking for, sometimes overlooking stuff that are obvious... they might not plan years ahead, but some animals will hide food for the next winter, even dogs will sometime hide their bones for a later time, some animals will build nests in preparation for their offspring, and a lot of little stuff like that! it might be from instinct, but it still show that they at least got some thought about things to come!!
I can see a lot of this with my dog, Charley… when Charley sees something new ie a baby for the 1* time, the Roomba (robot vacuum) for the 1* time, a new sound, smell.. I can actually watch him process it. I can see in his expression « I’ve never seen this thing before », it’s really interesting and endearing
We all have been taught to believe that only we - humans - have consciousness and different personalities just because we have a bigger brain but I can assure you that, being an herpetologist and keeping three individuals of moorish gecko, two of house gecko, two Californian King Snakes, one House Snake, one small algerian lizard and five salamanders, that each one of them has its own very distinctive personality, which is a breakthrough discovery I made about two years ago, since no one ever believed reptiles and amphibians would ever have. As if there were not enough reasons to keep us from killing animals, this is definitely a big one to make us wake up to what we have been doing to them all.
Ug gosh yeah! I've had 3 crested geckos and their personalities were I love everyone and everything and have no sense of self preservation, chill hippie unless I see food then HUNTER MODE, and I WILL MURDER YOU DON'T TOUCH MY FOOD BOWL lol. Imagine finding out something that fits in the palm of your hand and can't even break skin with their teeth has the guts to scream at you with all their might like a high pitched banshee over crusty dried up remnants of food. It's cute but I was also genuinely impressed.
The key to personality trait is VARIATION in it, therefore variation in behavior as well. The personality traits was developed by asking people whether they would describe someone with it or without it (more or less, to be specific). So the difference makes the trait; there are orderly and friendly people, orderly and hostile people, messy and amiable, also messy and hostile ones. If all individuals in a species have the same, say orderliness, the species doesn't have the trait. It is pure instinct. Confusing, I know. That's why I studied hard on this subject haha
i feel like this is one of those "duh" moments. it took scientists a lot of effort to figure out what we intuitively have known all along. my dogs have very prominent personalities, and no two are alike. don't get me wrong, i just think this is one of the times where scientific understanding trails reality/human intuition
@@GreatBigBore put the pitch fork down my man, same team. i'm a paying member of scishow, believe me we agree that we can not depend upon human intuition alone. that said, we also can not completely disregard it as not relevant. after all, it is the basis of all discovery
Exactly.. we have alot of different animals and they all are very different our 4 cats for example the oldest is a sweetheart but does like his alone time.. he’s often cold and does really like to crawl under your clothes and fall asleep there he also loves meeting new people as he will always come over sniff around a bit and say hi to them. Then the second cat is way more introverted he loves cuddles but is very picky about with whom he cuddles if he doesn’t know you he will run away and hide. He’s quite easily startled too and he knows how to open doors. Then our third cat is a bit of a grump he prefers lazing around over playing whenever the others play he’ll just be watching from a high place kind of like an old man watching kids do stupid things on the street. However whenever he wants to cuddle he comes to you. He’s also the only one of the older one that would never steal your food as he’ll ask for it but if he doesn’t get it he’s fine with it too.. (he’ll tap your arm when you’re eating to say hey can i please have some) the only thing he’d ever steal is milk if you are drinking it.. he’ll just dive in on that like a couple of kids on candy. Then finally our youngest she is the type that follows you around everywhere she is very vocal and is always friendly.. though she loves to play she also loves just curling up on your lap.. she never touches your food (she’ll sniff it but then decide that it’s not to her liking.. she’s a bit of a diva when it comes to her food) however she can be a bit pressuring when it comes to asking attention towards the other cats wich the others sometimes dislike wich ends up in them swatting her wich well since she is basically fearless (she is the kind of cat that would just have a staring contest with a growling dog twice the size of her and just not care at all) she’ll jus stand there and look at them like bruh i’m trying to groom you/play with you.. accept my love because i won’t stop untill you do. She is absolutely the most adorable sweetheart ever though
So many animals outside of mammals have personalities as well. I saw this all the time with my African dwarf frogs. When I rescued Bettas I always saw different personalities
Same here! I have a fish tank and I have, more often than not, observed personalities and social hierarchies in my guppies and platies. I also have a female swordtail, a female blue lampeye, and a pair of honey gouramis, and they have personalities as well, for example the female swordtail is quite extroverted and she loves to explore.
My cat growls and eventually hisses at certain words because he would KNOW he can't have something or has done something wrong. "Come on" (when he needed to go outside or get off something) is an example and something he absolutely hates hearing.
We are special, just not all that special, special, but not chosen by god special, special, just not the world was made for us special. We are special, like everything else is special too.
RoarOfDamnation we are special in the way that we are a unique species on earth same way that dogs or cats are unique in their own adorable little ways
You say this, through a devilish complex set of electric patterns, running on specially designed rocks, from probably another continent in which I'm standing right now. And just by talking in vague terms like those, you knew exactly what I was talking about. I'd say we're pretty darn special.
I think we are special in the cense that we are the first species to "wake up" and take over an entire planet. We drastically changed the landscape of this planet to better suit our needs. Isn't that special somehow?
I mean, on a cosmic scale we are but tiny little monkeys in a little planet spinning about a insignificant star that is itself just one of many in a galaxy that is just one of many in a complex of galaxies. We're tiny.
You could always just play them some music- cows _love_ music! Or combine the two and teach them to flick their ears to the music or something. lol Really, though, I highly recommend looking up videos of cows reacting to music if you feel like smiling. Some cows even sway or bob their head while they listen! 😊🐄🎶
As a non-native speaker I immensely appreciate and praise you for using thr correct, international spelling of 'extraversion'. The American linguistically nonsensical spelling with O is just so jarring and it's awesome to see that you care about such little details.
We had a fox terrier when i was a kid and we gave her some towels to sleep and play with. One day my mother decide to throw away one of her towel that was too old and dirty. Once my dog found out she was missing a towel, she was furious. She brought the rest of her towels up to my mother and literally swing it on the ground and looked at her, like demanding her where her towel is. My mother was able to outwit our little dog by asking her, "where is your towel? did you lost your towel?" Our dog looked confused at first and then my mother even offered to help her find the towel. Of course it was gone but at least our didnt blame my mother anymore.
Oh gosh terriers. We had a little mop of a terrier that figured out the best way to get everyone involved in a game of chase was to steal bras, specifically bras, from the freshly cleaned laundry and start to aggressively chew... while running. This absolutely cartoonish scene played out in our household on a weekly basis.
I think that the bad posture in dogs and their learning ability might be because the dog is dealing with weight or design problems that other dogs aren't. Unless you accounted for things like that and used very physically similar dogs of the same breed.
It's interesting to study Bee colonies as a whole, but it would also be interesting to look at the individual bees. Why? In 2022 we had something like a plague of overly aggressive wasps in Germany. Both species that live here are colonial breeders, eusocial insects. But yet there seemed to be a rise of "individualistic" wasps. In 2022 we had one around our house that was tame. It started out as a wasp behaving like a fly, searching around for food scraps and dog poo. Nothing out of the ordinary in late August. But it got so used to us that it started living in the house. It sat on our shoulders, watched TV, waited for feeding time etc. It never even once showed any signs of fear or aggression. Sadly it drowned in boiling tomato sauce 😅 A year later we had a wasp that showed extreme time consciousness. We eat pizza every Monday, always around 7pm. We also leave windows open in summer. This one wasp came to our dining room every Monday at 7pm waiting for it's share of pizza. It bit off a piece, ate and flew away. It never took something back to the nest or brought other wasps in as they normally do. It also never came at another time but Monday evening.
I observed personality traits in my pet mantises. Three orchid mantises of the same age, two boys and one girl: The slightly smaller boy was very energetic and looked downright panicked if I kept him in a cup. He'd run circles around the lid, bumping into the sides, frantically trying to get somewhere. (For this reason, I moved him out of the cup and into a 30x30x30cm terrarium.) He also did a lot of jumping when I took him out of the terrarium, constantly looking at things decimetres away, judging the distance, and jumping to them. The slightly larger boy started his time with me in a 30x30c30cm terrarium, but always hid at the back of it and behind leaves. I moved him into a cup and he stopped trying to hide, just chilling in plain view. He only ever jumped to get away from me. x) I mostly left him to himself as a result. As for the girl, whenever she saw me looking at her, she stared back and flattened herself. She might have been scared and trying to hide, but at the time I interpreted it more as threatening, like a cat flattening its ears, crouching low, and hissing. I called her grumpy (and mostly left her alone.) However, when she was older, she fell from a moult and was injured. I did my best to care for her until her next (and possibly final) moult and during that time she was surprisingly cuddly. Sadly she didn't survive that next moult, but I did everything I could to give her a comfortable life.
I refer to myself as a conscience flake. Now even more I feel like a child of the universe...part of it all. Positive vibes from New Hampshire and remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic, social and environmental crisis
Glad to hear biologists admitted that we have more in common with animals than we though. Now can we get the linguists to stop moving the goalposts on the definition of language just to make it so it only applies to humans? Syntax and grammar exist in animal communication, and there's even a bird species that will attack each other for making mistakes in their calls.
I am going to assume some species do things in more orderly fashion and some don't have something to do with the genetics they inherited. Of course I could be looking it at the wrong way. I just can't believe placing eggs neatly provide any survival advantages. The nest is not like my room where I can misplace something and not finding it when I need it.
I didn't even think of conscientiousness as a thing in animals but, now that you mention it, my green cheek is way more conscientious than my sun conjur lol. Example: green bird only poos off the side of things and asks to be put back onto cage to do a poo. Orange birb poos everywhere instantly, especially after flying to another spot in the house
It's funny cos orange birb performs tricks way sooner than green birb. I thought green birb was just dumb but then one day I realized green birb actually does all the things I teach her, just not when I'm looking. Example: flight training green birb, green birb refuses to fly anywhere while I'm around, just begs me to put her places. But when I am not around, she flies anywhere she wants since flight training. Turns out she expects me to carry her everywhere when I'm around and knows if she begs enough I'll do it
Everything is obvious to a non-skeptic, especially in hindsight. Science is based on skepticism, on being critical. Just cos you think your pets seem orderly doesn't prove anything. For a pretty blatant example, it's pretty "obvious" that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones. Then someone (Galileo) actually had the appropriately scientific mindset to question that, test it and...guess what he found? Yeah... Real science is about rigour, not lazy guesses.
@nothanks + it's important to be a skeptic to do research without bias. If they assume that conscientiousness is seen in animals, they might be biased thus assessing it wrong :) Edit: was a spelling error
"Experts" finding out something pet owners have known since the dawn of time. I currently live with 5 dogs, 4 cats, and 3 Guinea pigs. Some of these think they are human
There is definitely a difference of conscientiousness between our 3 dogs. The rottweiler would be like the straight-A kid in the class, the cocker spaniel would be the chatty kid who doesn't pay attention, and the rottmerand would be the rebellious kid who fails the class in order to make a statement.
Not new information to us Vegans, but its about dam time they put this together in journals because no amount of videos showing cows crying got other people to believe us when we said other animals are conscious.
Most of our limiting beliefs about animal intelligence and personality come from our poor ability to communicate with other species or the problems of designing tests with human understanding bias. Conscienciousness may also require being intrinsically motivated
Their personalities are more like ours ( regarding what we thought ) but it does not mean they are really close to us It is just a simple form of conscientiousness ( what a hard word people !! ) Yet, that makes all sense because we - earth creatures - have common grounds by logic
wonder if conscientiousness plays a part in how much time cats and dogs spend grooming themselves? my border collie mix grooms her paws and butt obsessively and tries to avoid getting dirty, but a cat I babysat didn't spend a lot of time grooming himself and would even kick poop outside the litter box...
Complex language isn't even unique to us. We can't exactly understand the "language" of most animals, and if we're talking solely about vocalizations, a lot of sea mammals and rodents have remarkably complex vocalized communication. I think that for most animals, though, their languages are more than just sounds. We have 'body language', but for us it's usually just an additive, like salt, it adds flavor but isn't necessary. But for them it's as integral to their communication as any other word is for us. Abstraction though... Well, I guess they haven't really... *had* to think abstractly like us, I guess? Pretty sure we developed these things as problem solving skills and stuff because we had to make up for our weaknesses, probably when hunting. It's human nature to fight dirty, basically LOL
I really don't like the Big Five, and I especially don't like 'conscientiousness'. The traits are derived from factor-analytic studies, and the name for each trait is based on what the researchers felt were fitting for that group of questions. Putting aside other criticisms, the problem with 'conscientiousness' is that in common parlance, conscientiousness also denotes being socially responsible. However, this is not really true of the trait - so the trait name in Big Five is misleading. Given further, that these traits are often interpreted from their trait name - as if they denoted some inherent quality - misreadings and interpretations that go beyond what the data justifies is rampant.
My dog plans ahead all the time. He waits to ask me to be let outside until I'm very busy, hoping I'll forget about him being out there, giving him time to dig in his favorite hole. I love that jerk.
My crested gecko is quite the introvert, even if he doesn't shout his INTJ status on social media. Very happy to just hang out, swing from his plants, eat, hide and sleep.
@3:57 One Bee to another: _Yep, it's fine. We'll get to Tues...._ *Honey time!* I fricken laughed out loud! _Honey Time_ - I'm definitely using that - as soon as I can leave my house!
Bias is such an acid trip. Warps reality to the extreme. Who here knew all this from just, ya know, growing up paying the bare minimum amount of attention to the animals around them?? XD Just cuz you don't have words for something doesn't make it not a factual observation. We're just better at realizing what's happening with ourselves and talking about it, that's it. Glad they finally did scientific research about this though! Now if only this info would get uploaded into the brains of average college teachers. Or any teachers.
Um, if ALL squirrels bury food in the same way and the same amount, then it is not a trait for them. If some squirrels are lazier than the others in burying food, then it is.
I feel as though this video only described the good parts of being high in conscientiousness, and not the benefits of being low. It's not a scale where being high or low is ultimately better or worse, or evolution would've gotten rid of the scale rather quick.
Are animals that store food for over the winter not thinking ahead and being responsible? A person's personality can be stubborn and independent. It would be interesting to know the exact definition of why a human has a personality but the same stubborn and independent traits are instead called instinct when talking about animals. Maybe the shift needs to be looking at human behaviors like attaining wealth and property in the same light as building a nest and look at fashion/dance/arts the same way science examines mating rituals that utilize found objects and elaborate calls or movements. If those are all things classified as instinct in animals, why isn't that just human instinct then that drives people to make art and seek comforts? Are instinct and personality so divided or is it easy to see how those two things can easily overlap and blend? My dog would come get me from where she was laying down and coax me upstairs if we were still downstairs and I was staying up too late into the night. Sometimes she would pretend to sleep and tell me that it was time to sleep and so she would fake snore if we were in bed but I was still on my phone or reading and not sleeping yet. She was incredible. She was nearly thirteen years old when she had to be put to sleep a week ago. She was given to me as a surprise when she was a little under 2 months old. She was a rescue. To me, she definitely had personality.
I hope a day comes when we can uplift our animal kin and all communicate with each other just as us humans do. Sure, we'll need to destroy our *own* language barrier first, so that's a long way off, but... At the end of the day most animals are really just much-less-smart individuals (or less focused-smart, let's face it we're not as brilliant as we like to think, we just hyperspecialized our talents lol) much like us. ...Well unless it's a hive mind, in which case it's kinda hard to *entirely* make parallels here, but still lol
Since there are other personality models I wonder if any other personality traits are mirrored in animals or... If animals have any personalities not found in people!
Me: :(
Scishow: "cows get excited when they learn something new"
Me: :)
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Wait till they learn what happens in the slaughter house.
@@oiltoast3723
Excitement
No matter what our personality is, we're all delicious inside.
@@unclekanethetiberiummain1994
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Just a fun story:
We got a new leather couch and my dad didn't want our doggo to lie on it, cause she has sharp claws. She was confused at first, but somehow realised that it was the leather that she wasn't allowed to jump on. The next thing we saw was her sitting on a pillow ON the couch, with her body curled up tight just to make sure that no part of her touches the couch.
She even gave us a look like "Technically I'm not on the couch!)
HAHAHAHA wonderful!
Good dog!
I didn't want my cat on tables and he learned it but next time his mom came in and jumped on and well... He followed his mom's example..
r/technicallythetruth
Yeah, my doggo learned to stop scratching the couch, but now he cleans his face on it
Oooh, smart girl! I like her already
"It's that trait that makes you work hard and make responsible decisions..."
me: *looking uncomfortably around* "Yes. Yes, as a human, I clearly have that trait. Yes..."
I came here to learn and I'm feeling so attacked right now... xD
I'm going to pretend that trait is called procrastination...
“Honey time!”
I REJECT MY HUMANITY, SCISHOW!
Same
I think most ppl who spend some time with other animals have felt this.
There are a few stray cats in my neighborhood and they definitely have different personalities. One of them has always been pretty social with humans since he was a kitten. He loves attention and is very playful, even as an adult. There's another one who's more cautious and slow to warm up to ppl.
Everyone who owned more than one pet: *"DUH!"*
The next thing you're going to tell me is Humans are animals and we evolved from similar based species....
Seriously though, My mind went to squirrels and they stashing food for the winter.
I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned. I guess maybe that's not something that distincts squirrels from other squirrels though. So it's a species thing and not a personality thing. But maybe if we looked at what kind of food they stored and how neat it was that would be a way to measure it?
I was wondering why catching or storing food wasn't considered conscientiousness, or not mentioned.
@@UshioKiss We might be able to measure how vigilant individual squirrels are-- do they spend a more or less time observing an area for potential squirrel spies before hiding their nuts?
toyherb yes I was surprised too and your points make sense. Maybe they didn’t find squirrel nut stash neatness and scavenging reconnaissance surveys.
Althea Unertl aha! Yes and squirrel spies. And maybe even trickery. Bury the nuts here and then dig them up and relocate them to the secret stash area when nobody is looking.
If being conscientious is/was a key metric that separated us from animals then a lot of humans don’t/wouldn’t qualify 🤔
exactly, that’s why Brit *didn’t* say it was a key metric that separated us from animals; it was just a thing past biologists thought was different between humans and animals, but that some humans had a lot of and other humans had less of, and some humans probably had none whatsoever of... that’s how she implied that The Big Five worked.
if you hadn’t already guessed, i have 100% of my The Big Five points invested in the Neuroticism category 😅
Same goes for intelligence in these PC days at least.
I wouldn’t. I have alot of trouble figuring out my future because well my interests just aren’t viable enough for a job.. i like writing stories for example yet unless you want to self publish books as a hobby you can’t do anything with it.. and journalism won’t work either because i’m a huge introvert... so doing interviews is just a big nope,..
@@colinp2238 Its always been this dumb, not a new thing
Quite a while ago, we had a big black cat--and this was when cats still went outdoors. When ever one of us would pull into the driveway, he would come tearing across the yard meowing. Before you say he just wanted in to be fed, not necessarily. Sometimes he would accompany you into the house, but often he would greet you, get scratches and go back about his business. He was the guard cat--or maybe greeting cat--and that was his job. He was conscientious.
I wholeheartly agree.
When I was an elementary school child, our cat always welcomed me back home. I walked home, but it was always around the same time. She did that just for me, not my brother or my parents, even though my mom was the one feeding him, but I was the only one playing with him. Maybe he saw me as one of his kittens?
I can say our dog is definitely conscientious! He seems to express Shame when he does something he’s not supposed to do (like use the bathroom in the house) and gets on the cats when he knows they’re misbehaving! For instance he barks at them if he sees them try to scratch on the furniture, likely because he sees us scold them when they do so.
Having been a zookeeper for decades, I can attest to this.
Also, good to see Brit again!
OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
Thanks Dr. Grande!
No, it's CANOE :P
Yes! I was looking for this comment! 😀
Team Seas be like:
One of my cats is definitely capable of planning ahead. He would pretend to want to go outside to lure my other cat into wanting to go outside. Once they were both outside, he would immediately return inside. Took me longer than I care to admit to realize he just wanted the house to himself and manipulated everyone around him to reach his goals.
Humans: WE'RE SPECIAL! WE'RE UNIQUE! YAHOOOO
Facts: ... Um.... .... about that... .....
Humans: Oh.
I feel like humans aren't trying to distinguish ourselves as the "most special". I feel like we're always looking for creatures like us. That's why this is exciting.
noodle dew i mean i am.. it exites me because i prefer being around animals over being with other humans mainly because humans often judge you and i can never grasp what’s going on in their heads.. animals however it’s easier for me to understand them
A pair of birds nested in a tree in front of my house. It noticed us watching and used a vine to obscure our view of the nest and the three baby birds inside
Nice seeing Brit back on the channel!
It seems like anything that was thought to be uniquely human turns out to be incredibly common.
I have had a horse and a dog that both had a sense of humor, they played tricks on other animals and on people just to observe the reaction. The horse was an American Saddlebred, the dog was a shelter-rescue pit bull.
Most of my pets with an obvious sense of humor have been cats, all the practical jokers.
Had a Dalmatian, and some ten years later, a Cockateil. With both had an occasion.where we had to leave them home alone, (leaving Fri, back on Sun.) Both times left plenty of water, and food in case of unforeseen delays.( The dog was outside w/a dog house). Both critters did not eat a speck of food until we returned. Sure seemed like they were planning ahead, in case we never came back.
Did you have anyone come in and check on them while your were gone?
Some *really* social animals tend to get extremely depressed when lonely, like us. And depression usually includes a loss of appetite. :c
@@Starfloofle one of my childhood dogs went on a hunger strike when we went away on a visit to grandma's. One of my aunties stayed home with him but he didn't eat, ended up at the vet, i.v.ed and fed by a tube...after that he came with and we drove to visit.
My dog is so much better at inhibiting his impulses than he was when he was younger. We're both working on becoming more conscientious.
I'm still laughing.
Good luck! ^w^
Why?
My parents used to have a pretty introverted dog. In fact it seemed almost like it had autism. He kept to himself, almost never barked, he probably barked only a few handfuls of times in his life, and then it was usually just a single bark seemingly more an expression of suprise than a wish to communicate. He was intelligent and could learn tricks but he was only motivated by treats and completely ignored social rewards like praise. He had a special interest in horses which he liked to loook at and seemed comfortable around, and he liked to chase rabbits and hares and other smaller animals. But most dogs and other animals and human children he was rather indifferent to or uncomfortable with.
I think he liked horses and adult humans, the older the better because they are calm and more predictable.
Yeah... I took the MBTI for our pomeranian. I figured it would work since it focuses more on an individual’s function in society more than their characteristics. He’s an ESFP..
Consciousness is what makes service animals like guide dogs so amazing at their jobs. 🦮❤️
"Honey time" ;D
"classic humans" so true 2:55
What about contemporary humans?
Please do a video about the cognitive dysfunction, sleep disturbances, and avolition seen in depression!
I believe these were already covered.
A teacher at uni (ANU) in 2002 told us that when they played back lion calls on speakers, lionesses would go out to show off the intruders. Depending upon who they were with their behaviour differed.
If they were with a lioness who was known to actively go out and defend, then they just went off and defended without checking, however, if they were with a lioness who was hesitant or lazy they would go out a bit, wait, turn their head to look at them, move on further, wait a bit for them to catch up, go on a bit, pause and turn, ... as if they knew the personality of the other lioness was not as conscientious.
2002 we knew this.
i once visited a public aquarium that had a shallow petting tank with stingrays (with stingers removed) and small dogfish sharks. all of the sharks congregated in the middle of the tank, out of reach of any people. the stingrays orbited around the edge of the tank where folks could get to them. none actively avoided contact. most accepted people touching them, but did not prolong the contact. a few seemed to enjoy being petted, and one or two would actually hurl themselves up on the walls of the tank if the person who was petting them gave up too early. i gave one a full five-ten minutes' worth of attention and i still got the 'more please' behavior when i got up to leave. had no idea the 'lesser' critters had such variations of personality.
SciShow: "some cats love cuddling"
Me: Looks at Professor Paws, curled up in my lap as I watch SciShow.
love her as a host not just a guest!
"animals don't plan", i think sometimes researchers try searching too deep for a sign of what they are looking for, sometimes overlooking stuff that are obvious... they might not plan years ahead, but some animals will hide food for the next winter, even dogs will sometime hide their bones for a later time, some animals will build nests in preparation for their offspring, and a lot of little stuff like that! it might be from instinct, but it still show that they at least got some thought about things to come!!
5:56 I like that they mentioned non-human animals. Sometimes, some people forget that humans are scientifically animals too.
Yesand some are just beasts.
I can see a lot of this with my dog, Charley… when Charley sees something new ie a baby for the 1* time, the Roomba (robot vacuum) for the 1* time, a new sound, smell.. I can actually watch him process it. I can see in his expression « I’ve never seen this thing before », it’s really interesting and endearing
We all have been taught to believe that only we - humans - have consciousness and different personalities just because we have a bigger brain but I can assure you that, being an herpetologist and keeping three individuals of moorish gecko, two of house gecko, two Californian King Snakes, one House Snake, one small algerian lizard and five salamanders, that each one of them has its own very distinctive personality, which is a breakthrough discovery I made about two years ago, since no one ever believed reptiles and amphibians would ever have.
As if there were not enough reasons to keep us from killing animals, this is definitely a big one to make us wake up to what we have been doing to them all.
Ug gosh yeah! I've had 3 crested geckos and their personalities were I love everyone and everything and have no sense of self preservation, chill hippie unless I see food then HUNTER MODE, and I WILL MURDER YOU DON'T TOUCH MY FOOD BOWL lol. Imagine finding out something that fits in the palm of your hand and can't even break skin with their teeth has the guts to scream at you with all their might like a high pitched banshee over crusty dried up remnants of food. It's cute but I was also genuinely impressed.
I was not expecting being personally attacked by a video about animal personalities, time to be more conscientious i guess, will start next month.
The key to personality trait is VARIATION in it, therefore variation in behavior as well. The personality traits was developed by asking people whether they would describe someone with it or without it (more or less, to be specific). So the difference makes the trait; there are orderly and friendly people, orderly and hostile people, messy and amiable, also messy and hostile ones. If all individuals in a species have the same, say orderliness, the species doesn't have the trait. It is pure instinct.
Confusing, I know. That's why I studied hard on this subject haha
i feel like this is one of those "duh" moments. it took scientists a lot of effort to figure out what we intuitively have known all along. my dogs have very prominent personalities, and no two are alike. don't get me wrong, i just think this is one of the times where scientific understanding trails reality/human intuition
On the other hand, human intuition is often quite wrong, like when we used to think the heavens moved around the Earth
@@GreatBigBore put the pitch fork down my man, same team. i'm a paying member of scishow, believe me we agree that we can not depend upon human intuition alone. that said, we also can not completely disregard it as not relevant. after all, it is the basis of all discovery
Exactly.. we have alot of different animals and they all are very different our 4 cats for example the oldest is a sweetheart but does like his alone time.. he’s often cold and does really like to crawl under your clothes and fall asleep there he also loves meeting new people as he will always come over sniff around a bit and say hi to them. Then the second cat is way more introverted he loves cuddles but is very picky about with whom he cuddles if he doesn’t know you he will run away and hide. He’s quite easily startled too and he knows how to open doors. Then our third cat is a bit of a grump he prefers lazing around over playing whenever the others play he’ll just be watching from a high place kind of like an old man watching kids do stupid things on the street. However whenever he wants to cuddle he comes to you. He’s also the only one of the older one that would never steal your food as he’ll ask for it but if he doesn’t get it he’s fine with it too.. (he’ll tap your arm when you’re eating to say hey can i please have some) the only thing he’d ever steal is milk if you are drinking it.. he’ll just dive in on that like a couple of kids on candy. Then finally our youngest she is the type that follows you around everywhere she is very vocal and is always friendly.. though she loves to play she also loves just curling up on your lap.. she never touches your food (she’ll sniff it but then decide that it’s not to her liking.. she’s a bit of a diva when it comes to her food) however she can be a bit pressuring when it comes to asking attention towards the other cats wich the others sometimes dislike wich ends up in them swatting her wich well since she is basically fearless (she is the kind of cat that would just have a staring contest with a growling dog twice the size of her and just not care at all) she’ll jus stand there and look at them like bruh i’m trying to groom you/play with you.. accept my love because i won’t stop untill you do. She is absolutely the most adorable sweetheart ever though
So many animals outside of mammals have personalities as well. I saw this all the time with my African dwarf frogs. When I rescued Bettas I always saw different personalities
Same here! I have a fish tank and I have, more often than not, observed personalities and social hierarchies in my guppies and platies. I also have a female swordtail, a female blue lampeye, and a pair of honey gouramis, and they have personalities as well, for example the female swordtail is quite extroverted and she loves to explore.
Quite interesting! Thanks for uploading!
Hi Brit, good to see you again.
Hey girl! Your one of my faves on this channel!
What a purrfect epi.
I bet Brit wanted to make this one for a while :D
Amazing episode!!! You guys are the best!
My cat growls and eventually hisses at certain words because he would KNOW he can't have something or has done something wrong. "Come on" (when he needed to go outside or get off something) is an example and something he absolutely hates hearing.
silly humans, thinking we are somehow "special".
We are special, just not all that special, special, but not chosen by god special, special, just not the world was made for us special.
We are special, like everything else is special too.
RoarOfDamnation we are special in the way that we are a unique species on earth same way that dogs or cats are unique in their own adorable little ways
You say this, through a devilish complex set of electric patterns, running on specially designed rocks, from probably another continent in which I'm standing right now. And just by talking in vague terms like those, you knew exactly what I was talking about. I'd say we're pretty darn special.
I think we are special in the cense that we are the first species to "wake up" and take over an entire planet. We drastically changed the landscape of this planet to better suit our needs. Isn't that special somehow?
I mean, on a cosmic scale we are but tiny little monkeys in a little planet spinning about a insignificant star that is itself just one of many in a galaxy that is just one of many in a complex of galaxies.
We're tiny.
Gotta find a cow and teach her something... What would they want to learn though?...🤔🐄
Pedro Figueira how to avoid becoming a meal
You could always just play them some music- cows _love_ music! Or combine the two and teach them to flick their ears to the music or something. lol
Really, though, I highly recommend looking up videos of cows reacting to music if you feel like smiling. Some cows even sway or bob their head while they listen! 😊🐄🎶
where to find hay bales, could hide the bales and let the cows try to figure out where you placed 'em?
Tanning leather?
Cows can play with big inflated rubber balls, so like maybe play catch or bounce the ball.
As a non-native speaker I immensely appreciate and praise you for using thr correct, international spelling of 'extraversion'. The American linguistically nonsensical spelling with O is just so jarring and it's awesome to see that you care about such little details.
Our cats have two personality traits, hungry and napping.
We had a fox terrier when i was a kid and we gave her some towels to sleep and play with.
One day my mother decide to throw away one of her towel that was too old and dirty. Once my dog found out she was missing a towel, she was furious. She brought the rest of her towels up to my mother and literally swing it on the ground and looked at her, like demanding her where her towel is.
My mother was able to outwit our little dog by asking her, "where is your towel? did you lost your towel?"
Our dog looked confused at first and then my mother even offered to help her find the towel. Of course it was gone but at least our didnt blame my mother anymore.
Oh gosh terriers. We had a little mop of a terrier that figured out the best way to get everyone involved in a game of chase was to steal bras, specifically bras, from the freshly cleaned laundry and start to aggressively chew... while running. This absolutely cartoonish scene played out in our household on a weekly basis.
I think that the bad posture in dogs and their learning ability might be because the dog is dealing with weight or design problems that other dogs aren't. Unless you accounted for things like that and used very physically similar dogs of the same breed.
It's interesting to study Bee colonies as a whole, but it would also be interesting to look at the individual bees. Why? In 2022 we had something like a plague of overly aggressive wasps in Germany. Both species that live here are colonial breeders, eusocial insects. But yet there seemed to be a rise of "individualistic" wasps. In 2022 we had one around our house that was tame. It started out as a wasp behaving like a fly, searching around for food scraps and dog poo. Nothing out of the ordinary in late August. But it got so used to us that it started living in the house. It sat on our shoulders, watched TV, waited for feeding time etc. It never even once showed any signs of fear or aggression. Sadly it drowned in boiling tomato sauce 😅
A year later we had a wasp that showed extreme time consciousness. We eat pizza every Monday, always around 7pm. We also leave windows open in summer. This one wasp came to our dining room every Monday at 7pm waiting for it's share of pizza. It bit off a piece, ate and flew away. It never took something back to the nest or brought other wasps in as they normally do. It also never came at another time but Monday evening.
The idea of a possibly (relatively) lazy bee colony is kinda hilarious to me, a bunch of fuzzy lethargic insects.
I got a puppy recently and he's exactly like me
I observed personality traits in my pet mantises. Three orchid mantises of the same age, two boys and one girl:
The slightly smaller boy was very energetic and looked downright panicked if I kept him in a cup. He'd run circles around the lid, bumping into the sides, frantically trying to get somewhere. (For this reason, I moved him out of the cup and into a 30x30x30cm terrarium.) He also did a lot of jumping when I took him out of the terrarium, constantly looking at things decimetres away, judging the distance, and jumping to them.
The slightly larger boy started his time with me in a 30x30c30cm terrarium, but always hid at the back of it and behind leaves. I moved him into a cup and he stopped trying to hide, just chilling in plain view. He only ever jumped to get away from me. x) I mostly left him to himself as a result.
As for the girl, whenever she saw me looking at her, she stared back and flattened herself. She might have been scared and trying to hide, but at the time I interpreted it more as threatening, like a cat flattening its ears, crouching low, and hissing. I called her grumpy (and mostly left her alone.) However, when she was older, she fell from a moult and was injured. I did my best to care for her until her next (and possibly final) moult and during that time she was surprisingly cuddly. Sadly she didn't survive that next moult, but I did everything I could to give her a comfortable life.
I've been saying this! Even fish have their quirks.
I refer to myself as a conscience flake. Now even more I feel like a child of the universe...part of it all. Positive vibes from New Hampshire and remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic, social and environmental crisis
So lovely to see Brit! 💙
Cheers :) -Brit
Hold up, what are cows learning
I'm intrigued by invertebrates having personalities. I'd certainly expect it with cephalopods, but arthropods I hadn't thought about.
I thought - from the title - that this video was going to be about how pets mirror the personalities of their owners after time!
"Honey time!"😂🤣
Glad to hear biologists admitted that we have more in common with animals than we though.
Now can we get the linguists to stop moving the goalposts on the definition of language just to make it so it only applies to humans? Syntax and grammar exist in animal communication, and there's even a bird species that will attack each other for making mistakes in their calls.
I was just wondering about this topic yesterday... Weird!
I am going to assume some species do things in more orderly fashion and some don't have something to do with the genetics they inherited. Of course I could be looking it at the wrong way. I just can't believe placing eggs neatly provide any survival advantages. The nest is not like my room where I can misplace something and not finding it when I need it.
I didn't even think of conscientiousness as a thing in animals but, now that you mention it, my green cheek is way more conscientious than my sun conjur lol. Example: green bird only poos off the side of things and asks to be put back onto cage to do a poo. Orange birb poos everywhere instantly, especially after flying to another spot in the house
It's funny cos orange birb performs tricks way sooner than green birb. I thought green birb was just dumb but then one day I realized green birb actually does all the things I teach her, just not when I'm looking. Example: flight training green birb, green birb refuses to fly anywhere while I'm around, just begs me to put her places. But when I am not around, she flies anywhere she wants since flight training. Turns out she expects me to carry her everywhere when I'm around and knows if she begs enough I'll do it
Do scientists not own pets or something? Seems pretty obvious lol
considering how poorly animals are treated you'd think it wasn't obvious
For most of history, scientists were discouraged from studying domestic animals because it wasn’t “real science”.
It said, it is specificaly for conscientiousness domain in big five factor model.
Everything is obvious to a non-skeptic, especially in hindsight. Science is based on skepticism, on being critical. Just cos you think your pets seem orderly doesn't prove anything. For a pretty blatant example, it's pretty "obvious" that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones. Then someone (Galileo) actually had the appropriately scientific mindset to question that, test it and...guess what he found? Yeah... Real science is about rigour, not lazy guesses.
@nothanks + it's important to be a skeptic to do research without bias. If they assume that conscientiousness is seen in animals, they might be biased thus assessing it wrong :)
Edit: was a spelling error
Haha doggo's brain goes brr
OH BRIT... you are the queen of everything.
Fascinating! We knew it all along! 🥰
"Experts" finding out something pet owners have known since the dawn of time.
I currently live with 5 dogs, 4 cats, and 3 Guinea pigs. Some of these think they are human
There is definitely a difference of conscientiousness between our 3 dogs. The rottweiler would be like the straight-A kid in the class, the cocker spaniel would be the chatty kid who doesn't pay attention, and the rottmerand would be the rebellious kid who fails the class in order to make a statement.
Not new information to us Vegans, but its about dam time they put this together in journals because no amount of videos showing cows crying got other people to believe us when we said other animals are conscious.
Most of our limiting beliefs about animal intelligence and personality come from our poor ability to communicate with other species or the problems of designing tests with human understanding bias. Conscienciousness may also require being intrinsically motivated
Their personalities are more like ours ( regarding what we thought ) but it does not mean they are really close to us
It is just a simple form of conscientiousness ( what a hard word people !! )
Yet, that makes all sense because we - earth creatures - have common grounds by logic
wonder if conscientiousness plays a part in how much time cats and dogs spend grooming themselves?
my border collie mix grooms her paws and butt obsessively and tries to avoid getting dirty, but a cat I babysat didn't spend a lot of time grooming himself and would even kick poop outside the litter box...
Fascinating ❤️❤️❤️
So, basically, we're just like all other animals, with the exception that we posses complex languages and think abstractly.
Complex language isn't even unique to us. We can't exactly understand the "language" of most animals, and if we're talking solely about vocalizations, a lot of sea mammals and rodents have remarkably complex vocalized communication. I think that for most animals, though, their languages are more than just sounds. We have 'body language', but for us it's usually just an additive, like salt, it adds flavor but isn't necessary. But for them it's as integral to their communication as any other word is for us.
Abstraction though... Well, I guess they haven't really... *had* to think abstractly like us, I guess? Pretty sure we developed these things as problem solving skills and stuff because we had to make up for our weaknesses, probably when hunting. It's human nature to fight dirty, basically LOL
I really don't like the Big Five, and I especially don't like 'conscientiousness'. The traits are derived from factor-analytic studies, and the name for each trait is based on what the researchers felt were fitting for that group of questions. Putting aside other criticisms, the problem with 'conscientiousness' is that in common parlance, conscientiousness also denotes being socially responsible. However, this is not really true of the trait - so the trait name in Big Five is misleading. Given further, that these traits are often interpreted from their trait name - as if they denoted some inherent quality - misreadings and interpretations that go beyond what the data justifies is rampant.
Maybe conscientiousness doesn't make us like other animals. Maybe it makes other animals more like us
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The bee colony as a whole!? Wow!!
I can't help but to think of Jordan Peterson while listening to this video like: "Stand up straight!" and all that jazz
take a drink every time you hear "conscientiousness" and you'll suddenly wake up hungover next afternoon
If you're conscious (compus mentis).
My dog plans ahead all the time. He waits to ask me to be let outside until I'm very busy, hoping I'll forget about him being out there, giving him time to dig in his favorite hole. I love that jerk.
We may have lost conscientiousness, but we still own self righteousness! Homo Saps! Homo Saps! Homo Saps!
So, there’s an Oscar Madison spider and a Felix Unger spider. “Oscar, Oscar, Oscar...”
Octopodes Brit, Octopodes.
Brit! Best host! :D
My crested gecko is quite the introvert, even if he doesn't shout his INTJ status on social media. Very happy to just hang out, swing from his plants, eat, hide and sleep.
@3:57 One Bee to another: _Yep, it's fine. We'll get to Tues...._ *Honey time!*
I fricken laughed out loud! _Honey Time_ - I'm definitely using that - as soon as I can leave my house!
Britt is the best!
Rediscovering Darwin’s 1897 “The expression of the emotions in man and animals”.
Bias is such an acid trip. Warps reality to the extreme. Who here knew all this from just, ya know, growing up paying the bare minimum amount of attention to the animals around them?? XD Just cuz you don't have words for something doesn't make it not a factual observation. We're just better at realizing what's happening with ourselves and talking about it, that's it.
Glad they finally did scientific research about this though!
Now if only this info would get uploaded into the brains of average college teachers. Or any teachers.
Alternative title: All about conscientiousness
Squirrels. Bury their food to have in the winter.
If that's not conscientiousness I don't know what is,.
Um, if ALL squirrels bury food in the same way and the same amount, then it is not a trait for them. If some squirrels are lazier than the others in burying food, then it is.
I feel as though this video only described the good parts of being high in conscientiousness, and not the benefits of being low. It's not a scale where being high or low is ultimately better or worse, or evolution would've gotten rid of the scale rather quick.
hmmm... squirrels know enough to stock up for winter...
I think the only psychological trait uniquely human is superiority complex
Are animals that store food for over the winter not thinking ahead and being responsible? A person's personality can be stubborn and independent. It would be interesting to know the exact definition of why a human has a personality but the same stubborn and independent traits are instead called instinct when talking about animals. Maybe the shift needs to be looking at human behaviors like attaining wealth and property in the same light as building a nest and look at fashion/dance/arts the same way science examines mating rituals that utilize found objects and elaborate calls or movements. If those are all things classified as instinct in animals, why isn't that just human instinct then that drives people to make art and seek comforts? Are instinct and personality so divided or is it easy to see how those two things can easily overlap and blend?
My dog would come get me from where she was laying down and coax me upstairs if we were still downstairs and I was staying up too late into the night. Sometimes she would pretend to sleep and tell me that it was time to sleep and so she would fake snore if we were in bed but I was still on my phone or reading and not sleeping yet. She was incredible.
She was nearly thirteen years old when she had to be put to sleep a week ago. She was given to me as a surprise when she was a little under 2 months old. She was a rescue. To me, she definitely had personality.
I hope a day comes when we can uplift our animal kin and all communicate with each other just as us humans do.
Sure, we'll need to destroy our *own* language barrier first, so that's a long way off, but... At the end of the day most animals are really just much-less-smart individuals (or less focused-smart, let's face it we're not as brilliant as we like to think, we just hyperspecialized our talents lol) much like us. ...Well unless it's a hive mind, in which case it's kinda hard to *entirely* make parallels here, but still lol
Since there are other personality models I wonder if any other personality traits are mirrored in animals or... If animals have any personalities not found in people!