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Originally Posted by tirsales
There is evidence suggesting that animals can analyze reactions and build models of the future - not only for some seconds, but over the course of hours or days (e.g. animals building food deposits, crows gathering tools that came useful, etc).
Most "animals can do xy stuff"-models are far too simple to really grasp what an animal can or cannot do - they are not humans, but some of them can do quite complex stuff.
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Well I have read a bit about this question and if you look carefully at most examples given you see that there are alternative explanations that is as good or better than the explanation that the animal have a mental model of the world including the concept of time.