What are thew top ten intelligent animals?

Answer 1

What is your standard for intelligence?

Non-human Animals are often intelligent in things that we would never consider 'intelligence'. Or, we apply intelligence to things that are purely instinct. Is a cheetah intelligent because it attacks the slowest member of the heard? Or is it instinct to know that he has the best chance of catching it? Is a bee intelligent because it can show, via a series of complex 'dance' moves, how to find a particular place? Or is it just a natural behaviour?

Commonly, the most intelligent animals are usually considered to be primates (this includes humans), dolphins, parrots and elephants. Border Collies are considered to have the intelligence of a 6 year old child and pigs are supposed to be quite good problem solvers.

I guess the problem with cats is not that they aren't intelligent, they just choose not to participate in any intelligent tests because they really don't care.

Answer 2

Besides humans, the ten most intelligent animals are: chimpanzees,
gorillas, orangutans, baboons, gibbons, monkeys (many species,
especially macaques), smaller toothed whales (especially killer whales
or Orcas), dolphins, elephants, and pigs."
source: Wildly Weird Facts, hosted by rarespecies.org
http://www.rarespecies.org/kids/weird.htm


According a web log, a recent televsion program on the Travel Channel
ranked the 10 smartest animals (in order of increasing intelligence):
"squirrel, squid, raven, dog, pig, parrot, elephant, monkey, dolphin,
ape"
source: iamtonyang.com cached by Google:
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:8LHCZvnVihYJ:www.iamtonyang.com/index.php%3Fmonth%3D0304+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Those are 2 different websies I found. Hope it helps!

Answer 3

# Many find the scientific approach too cautious, and feel that it tends to underrate the intellectual achievements of animals by insisting on behavioral evidence instead of approaching the issue from a more neutral point of view. [citation needed] In particular, many non-experts are likely to utilize this argument against studies that demonstrate limited intellectual ability in species "popular" with mainstream society, such as dogs, horses, or dolphins. [citation needed]
# Cognitive psychologists interested in work with humans frequently discount studies of animal cognition. To some extent this may be an effect of history - in the 1950s and 1960s cognitive psychology had to struggle to assert itself against the dominance of behaviorism and animal learning, and the attitudes of those days remain entrenched in influential figures in the field.
# Cognitive scientists have been interested in comparing and contrasting human cognition with artificial intelligence or machine cognition, but have been less interested in including animal cognition in the analysis - despite the fact that the common biological origins of human and animal cognition suggest that there might be greater resemblance, at least in some respects, between human and animal cognition than between human and machine cognition. There is also a minority of cognitive scientists who simply neglect accumulated psychological knowledge about cognition, whether animal or human.

Answer 4

Top Ten Intelligent Animals

Answer 5

Human beings (Homo sapiens sapiens)
There are several species of chimpanzee, so list them all.
There are several species of gorilla, so list them all.
After that, you may want to list dolphins, porpoises, orcas, and their relatives.

Answer 6

humans, dogs, cats, dolphins, pigs, horses, chimps

Answer 7

It's DOLPHINS! HP not DAUPHINS! Where are you from? Friggin Mars?! It's D-O-L-P-H-I-N-S!!!! Not D-A-U-P-H-I-N-S!! What the fuuuuuuuuuuuudge?

Answer 8

chimps , dogs, parrots, and bear thats all i know

Answer 9

humans
monkeys
dauphin's
cats
some birds
mice
and i would say the rest are equal

Answer 10

chimps
dogs
my boyfriend