Animals cubing?

[Rocky0701]

I think this could be a fun discussion. Do you think that someone would be able to teach an animal to solve a 3x3, if so which animal, and how would it be approached? I think that it could be very possible to teach a primate to solve the cube since they are pretty smart, and would be able to hold the cube just like we do. Does anybody know if anybody has tried to train an animal to solve in the past?

 

[SolveThatCube]

You could probably teach a monkey. LOL

 

[guysensei1]

Heck, I think they could figure it out by themselves.

 

[Fawn]

I wonder if faz ever taught his kangaroo

 

[Marco Cuber]

I wonder if faz ever taught his kangaroo

Lol
I'd like to see a video of an animal cubing.

 

[xirryxu]

orangutans i can think,so clever animal

 

[Hypocrism]

Possibly, although I've never seen an example of abstract reasoning in animals, and that's required for cubing.

 

[brian724080]

Humans; other than that, monkeys?

 

[cubecraze1]

I highly doubt you could. How do you think an animal trainer could approach this? The language barrier would be too difficult.

 

[the super cuber]

you might be able to teach this gorilla-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)

 

[NEONCUBES]

As an Australian cuber I can say that I have attempted to teach my Kangaroo to solve but we had a bit of a disagreement about F2L I insisted he learn intuitively but he of course he insists of learning algorithmic. Then there's the whole issue of colour neutrality.

 

[Rocky0701]

you might be able to teach this gorilla-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)

Koko is actually who made me think about the whole thread

 

[Rune]

Would it be too easy to begin with a 2x2 cube?

 

[KongShou]

Well it has been done before. I managed to teach my little brother.

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

no.

 

[TheNextFeliks]

For those of you that were here, remember RonaldTheCat? He could do it. Pretty impressive.

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?44000-I-m-Ronald-the-Cat!

 

[DavidCip86]

Sounds interesting. I'm not sure if animals could get past recognition, or learning algorithms though.

 

[BillyRain]

For those of you that were here, remember RonaldTheCat? He could do it. Pretty impressive.

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?44000-I-m-Ronald-the-Cat!

AUUUUUGH you got in b4 me

 

[Thompson]

a cheetah would probably be good at speedcubing because they are fast

 

[Ollie]

a cheetah would probably be good at speedcubing because they are fast

a chicken would be good at speedcubing because they know about eg