Can Animals Help Us Build Better AI?

Machine learning has been making plenty of headlines in the past few years. Rightfully so, even though headlines tend to oversell. Advances in computing power, algorithmic complexity, data handling capacities, and models of learning mean that machine learning/AI is increasingly being used in many fields. In previous posts, I have written about machine learning/AI in general science and art, but also more specifically in (warning, link fest) historical research, genetic enhancement, mental health, aging research (including the development of'aging clocks'), video game ecology, Hollywood, astrobiology, epidemiology, stock markets, and the job market. Plenty of AI to go around, it seems.