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What Is The Worlds Most Intelligent Animal? From man’s best friend to the most annoying birds ever…stay turned to number 1 to find out which animals are the most intelligent in the world!
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From man’s best friend to the most annoying birds ever…stay turned to number 1 to find
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out which animals are the most intelligent in the world!
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Number 10: Pigeons.
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Contrary to what any animated movie will have you believe.
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Pigeons are actually incredibly smart for their size.
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In a recent study conducted on pigeons, it was discovered that they are the only animal,
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other than the rhesus monkey, able to learn abstract mathematical rules, quite possibly
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making them the only mathematicians of the sky.
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They also aced what is called the “string task” which is a method used to determine
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an animal’s basic intelligence by putting a piece of food above a string alongside another
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piece of string without food above it.
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The pigeons had a success rate with an average of 90 percent and, when you hear that it was
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conducted on a digital touch screen, it makes it sound even more impressive.
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Each time the pigeons chose the correct string, the picture of the food drew closer until
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eventually they were rewarded with the actual treat.
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So next time you think of a pigeon as nothing more than a flying rat that drops bombs on
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your car, remember that they have probably thought out every option and that was the
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best thing to do.
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Number 9: The Octopus.
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Despite not even having a single bone in their bodies, they do have a brain, and of all the
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invertebrates…octopi are considered the most intelligent of them all!
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Whether it is camouflaging itself to hunt or to hide from predators, or its dispersing
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ink to mask a predator’s sight and smell, they are considered the apex invertebrate.
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Another clever aspect of the octopus is that while humans have 100 billion neurons in our
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brains, an octopus has only 130 million, but three fifths of them aren’t even in its brain.
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Each of an octopus’s eight tentacles has a mind of its own and should it ever lose and
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arm it will simply regrow a new one.
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Oh and that lost arm will continue to look for food after being detached from its hosts
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body before the neurons eventually die off.
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And of course let’s not forget Paul the Octopus, who correctly predicted 12 of the 14 matches
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he was presented with during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Number 8: Otters.
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Otters are the smallest, and quite possibly the most adorable of all aquatic mammals,
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and yet despite their very small size and cuteness, they are among the most intelligent.
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Otters are carnivorous, and they dine predominantly on crabs, fish and clams, and, in the case
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of crabs and clams, you might expect the shells to put up some type of resistance against
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a hungry otter.
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But otters are known to use tools to help them find and gain access to their food.
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Typically this comes in the form of a rock that is used to break open the hard outer
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shell, allowing to get to the goodness within.
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Otters are also extremely playful and are often seen on the banks of rivers playing
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and swimming for leisure.
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They are also known to sleep in the water, as they float, and an otter pair will link
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arms in order to stop them from drifting apart while they sleep.
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Number 7: Pigs.
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Traditionally speaking, pigs are seen as dirty animals that wallow in their own filth all
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day every day.
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Realistically speaking, however, pigs are not only extremely clean but are also highly
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intelligent.
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You may already know that pigs have a designated toilet area where they do their business and
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a designated area for eating.
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If you didn’t, now you do.
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But the reason they are often covered in mud is because they don’t possess any sweat glands
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and rolling in mud is their way of regulating their body’s temperature.
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Pigs also have excellent long-term memories, and have over 20 different sounds they make
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to indicate different things.
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Sounds that even new born piglets are able to understand and react to.
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Then there is also the fact that bored scientists have given them a joystick connected to a
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screen and that the pigs then proceeded to use the joystick to move a cursor on the screen,
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meaning that it is just a matter of time before George Orwell’s animal Farm becomes a reality.
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Number 6: Rats.
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It seems like Pinkie and the Brain may have been onto something, as rats are actually
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remarkably intelligent little critters.
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There is a reason that the term “lab Rats” is one that is used so often, and the reason
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is that rats are regularly used due to their intelligence and something called metacognition,
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which is the ability to think about thinking.
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What this means is that they are able to make decisions on their actions based on what they
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do or do not know.
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Aside from this, rats have been discovered to be self-aware, are able to dream, and are
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even ticklish.
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They are able to learn their names and come running when called.
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They are also able to form a strong bond with their owners, much like a dog would.
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Then, there is their well-documented ability to learn a maze and be able to run through
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a maze they have become familiar with in no time at all, all adding to the credibility
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of the movie Ratatouille.
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Number 5: Ants.
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Ants are extremely tiny and don’t have much of a brain to speak of, but they are extremely
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intelligent for their size…and their work ethic and sense of team work will rival that
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of any human team.
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Ants are possibly the world’s first farmers, and have been farming long before we had even
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discovered that plants grow from the ground.
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They live in well planned colonies that can span miles across, and have different sections
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for whatever needs to be farmed or stored.
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Each colony has its own chemical compound that allows them to tell when an ant is intruding
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from another colony, even the route they travel is laid with a pheromone that allows the other
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in the colony to follow the necessary route.
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In an experiment in which scientists wanted to test if ants counted their steps in desert
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areas, tiny stilts were put on the legs of the ants and it was found that the ants with
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the stilts would overshoot their target by far due to them taking bigger steps.
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I would REALLY love to watch an ant on stilts, though!
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Wouldn’t you?
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Number 4: Dogs.
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You may not think it if you look at certain breeds of dogs, but it is believed that the
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average dog is as intelligent as a two year old child.
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This is likely due to our long time companionship with them, and the fact they’ve been domesticated
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for such a long time, it has caused them to actually imprint on us better as the centuries
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have passed.
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Some scientists even believe that they are more like us than even chimpanzees and that
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their level of understanding of our emotions far exceeds that of the chimps.
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Of course, dogs can also be trained to do any range of things from police dogs right
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up to circus animals.
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While that is not necessarily the trait of something intelligent, it does still show
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us that they are able to be taught and that still puts them ahead of cats… who just
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don’t care.
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Number 3: Crows.
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This is now the second bird in this list which leads us to think that perhaps birds deserve
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way more credit than we give them.
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And while parrots, such as the African grey, are very clever and even learn math…they
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fail in comparison to the crow.
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A crow has a brain roughly the same size as a human thumb which, if you consider the size
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of their head is quite large, and actually puts them on a similar level to primates as
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far as intelligence goes.
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Scientists have proven that not only are crows able to solve complex problems, they are also
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able to recognize individual peoples’ faces.
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And, when hooked up to machines, it was discovered that different people trigger different parts
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of their brains, depending on whether they see that person as a threat or a friend.
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There are even documented cases of crows bringing the people that feed them trinkets as thanks
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for the food, and while it does include a lot of random things like tinfoil and such,
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they have even been known to bring jewelry to their feeders.
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Number 2: Elephants.
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It’s no secret that elephants are intelligent animals, and this is well documented in both
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animated and real life documentaries alike.
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But what you may not realize is that they have the biggest brains of any land mammal…and
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that their brains contain roughly the same amount of neurons as yours or mine, roughly
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100 billion.
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Elephants show emotions such as helpfulness, compassion and empathy, which are all things
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that most animals are not able to comprehend.
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They are also self-aware, and are able to recognize themselves in mirrors unlike most
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other animals.
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Elephants are also the only known land mammal to communicate through seismic signals, through
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the stomping of their feet and the noises from their trunks.
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These seismic noises are even used in a broad variety of conversation, which is believed
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to even far exceed simply deciding when to rest or eat and can contain more social conversation.
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Number 1: Chimpanzees.
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Once again, and much like elephants, this entry should not be a surprise.
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And yet no list about the most intelligent animals would be complete without them.
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Chimpanzees are our closest animal relatives, and while dogs may be more similar to us than
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chimps; that is simply through centuries of living at mans side.
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Chimps, on the other hand, share 99 percent of our DNA and are able to perform tasks that
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no other animal is capable of, things like solving complex puzzles and even learning
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sign language in order to communicate with us.
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Much like us, they walk on 2 legs if they choose to, and use tools to make life easier,
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they are omnivorous and even their reproductive age is much like ours.
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With females being of age at 13 and males at 16; all they need now is to pay a little
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more attention to their handlers and one team meeting and we are on the brink of a real
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life planet of the apes situation!
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What do you think about these amazing animals?
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Let us know in the comments below and…take care!
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