Rebecca Stout <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Bob? ::Waving my hand at the screen emphatically, Wolfy-style:: I have >questions! Not very intelligent ones and perhaps even annoying ones. >But I have them none-the-less. All knowledge springs from questions. Your questions are very good, but I won't have time to answer them until the series on enrichment is done. If you want, I can add a discussion of ferret intelligence to my list of things to write about, and I can detail the whats, whens, wheres, whos, and hows at that time. Just to tease you a bit, all I will say for now is that there are at least a half-dozen well-done papers on the intelligence and problem solving abilities of mustelids, including some cool studies of dogs, cats, herpestids, polecats, and ferrets. "BOOM! :: A small mushroom cloud is seen over the hills of Chattanooga....::" Why are you blowing yourself up? Asking intelligent questions short out the gray matter? ;-) Bob C [Posted in FML issue 4183]