Aside from humans, do animals lie?

Answer 1

They certainly bluff alot.

Answer 2

A mother bird sometimes behaves as if she has a broken wing to distract a predator from her chicks, but that's probably not learned or conscious deception. Camouflage is also deceptive, but that's not conscious either.

It's claimed that Koko the gorilla once used sign language to claim someone else had broken a sink which she had in fact broken. Some people believe that the claims made for Koko are spurious though.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Opossums will pretend to be dead. Killdeer's will pretend to have a broken wing. Dogs will fake left and run right. These are all deceptions of a kind. Monkeys probably lie pretty good too, but I haven't had a chance to witness it.

Answer 5

If humans lie, and we know that they do, all the time, then it follows that:

animals lie!

You are not suggesting that humans are...plants?

Iffin we ain't be'in plants...then we a be'in animals causin they is only 2 thangs we can be!

Or?

Answer 6

I had a female cat named Muffin who was the biggest phony and fraud I've ever seen. Anytime she wanted to feed her face, she'd come up to me and give me the fakest, most phony form of "love" you could imagine. She feigned love to get food, not unlike human females who feign love to get cold hard cash or the equivalent in merchandise or privilege!

Yes, I'd say animals are capable of lying through their actions, as opposed to lying with their words like humans who can do BOTH!

Answer 7

My cat often does something really nasty, like break a vase or something, and then runs like hell to the opposite side of the house where he curls up as if to sleep. When I come running at the noise, he lazily opens one eye, stretches and gives me the angelically innocent look of "What?! ME?! Noooo way... I was sleeping here all the time!"

Answer 8

Deception is integral in survival and reproduction of many species including chimps, bonobos, and even squid. Octopus are notorous deceivers of crabs.

Answer 9

Many animals will fake being hurt to draw attention away from their young, does that count? My cats will rub all over me like I'm their goddess or something, then I find out that their chow bowl only has crumbs in it. That hurts! LOL

Answer 10

Yes - chimps will "have affairs" and conceal them. I saw a film clip of two chimps screwing, then the ranking male approaches and they're sitting side by side looking bored, then when he leaves, they start again.

Answer 11

Yes, take the alligator snapping turtle it hides itself by acting like a rock and then uses its tongue to act like a worm to catch fish.