• Question: are any animals able to communicate through telapathy(mind reading and sending thoughts)

    Asked by casiacecilia to Charlotte, Jo, Kevin, Louise, Valeria on 18 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by biginside.
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      Kevin Mahon answered on 18 Jun 2012:

      No – telepathy is for my money anyway, silly hogwash/flim-flam.

      There is of course, hive minds and swarm intelligence, most notable in species like ants and termites where there is an appearance of a shared conciousness which is a result of pheremones and signalling as opposed to mind reading.

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      Joanna Cruden answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      I knew you were going to ask that!

      I find it difficult to believe but there has been tests which show dogs know when the owner is coming in and incidents where dogs have sensed their owner is in trouble so I guess we don’t know for sure but it is unlikely.

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