Quote Originally Posted by Lizardlicks View Post
Yeah, they kind of lumped snakes and lizards all together which is roughly as silly as lumping in a sparrow with an african grey when talking about bird cognizant processing and emotional intelligence. Different species with in the same FAMILY can have wildly variant levels of intelligence and social behavior, much less with in the same CLASS. It's was a very reduced/streamlined article for casual browsers though, not an actually published study (which I seem to be having difficulty finding. My google-fu is not strong enough it would seem). I will pester biologist friend and see if they can steer me at something more in depth.
Ugh, Google is the worst for trying to find a specific study. Even Google scholar is kind of unreliable unless you know exact titles half the time.
But agreed, even among snakes there seems to be a big difference in intelligence. At the repticon I went to a couple weeks ago, someone had a cobra, and I swear it was systematically looking for weak spots in the caging; it was following a grid and only returning to the same spots after it had gone around the whole enclosure. I've never seen a snake do anything like that before. It's usually just kind of blind nosing along the edges, but that cobra seemed to actually have a system.