August 7, 2014

Tortoises master touchscreen technology



Tortoises have learned how to use touchscreens as part of a study which aimed to teach the animals navigational techniques.

The research, which was led by Dr Anna Wilkinson, from the School of Life Sciences, involved red-footed tortoises, which are native to Central and South America. The brain structure of reptiles is very different to that of mammals, which use the hippocampus for spatial navigation.