# Animals Can Count and Use Zero. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go?

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Quanta Magazine]]
- Full Title: Animals Can Count and Use Zero. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go?
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/animals-can-count-and-use-zero-how-far-does-their-number-sense-go-20210809/

## Highlights
- Crows recently demonstrated an understanding of the concept of zero. It’s only the latest evidence of animals’ talents for numerical abstraction — which may still differ from our own grasp of numbers.