If an animal can't pick up a tool, but knows what it is, is that intelligence?
Researchers credit animals who use tools with intellegence. Once a month or so my dog gets a frustrated look on her face. I then go in the closet and get the Swiffer stick and retrieve her toy balls from under the couch. The first time she saw the Swiffer stick she thought it was a game and chewed on the stick. Once she saw what the stick was for, and from then on, she just looks at the stick reverentialy as if it were a magic wand. She knows this is ball retrieval time and won't dare touch the stick. She can't pick up a tool, but she sure knows what one is.
2007-01-12 09:03:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Sure, that's intelligence. Anything that can learn has intelligence. My dog knows that when she comes inside, she gets a treat, and she runs and sits in front of the fridge (her treats are on top). The dog I grew up with, BlackJack, used to, and i am not making this up, run out in front of the cars and wait for us to get on the bus. He would bite at their tires and make sure they didn't go while we were crossing the street. That's intelligence. So much is based on 'instinct'. You think a dog has an instinct that's natural to know that swiffer=toy. No. That's not something that's built in, it's learned. All animals are intelligent! Good question!!
2007-01-12 09:14:29 · answer #1 · answered by Jase 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes just cause you can't use something doesn't mean that you don't know what it's for or that you're stupid. If a disabled person know how to drive but can't, does that he/she lost their intelligence when they became disabled. Being able/unable to perform tasks and knowing how to perform them doesn't have that much of an effect on each other.
2007-01-12 09:14:44 · answer #2 · answered by gregtkt120012002 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
certain! in a way all of it does.. whay no longer? imagine about it.. that's customary with what to do even as some thing is placed into it soil and so on... plus the bible says that God has positioned the barriers on the waters/seas, to be able to be able to obey those boudaries then water ought to well known they are there in a roundabout way. no longer as we as people imagine, yet some how convinced.
2016-10-30 22:50:56 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She associates "stick" with "toys". Our Aussie sits and stares at us while we eat breakfast, because we used to give him little tidbits. But, he started getting finicky when it came to his dog food, so we stopped. But he still sits and stares at us. Association. But he's getting the hint: now, he lays on his back and grunts until we scratch his belly.
2007-01-12 09:13:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
She just knows what's right and wrong behavior, and not really what it is.
2007-01-12 09:58:42 · answer #5 · answered by Buchyex 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well ok... did u think ur dog was a brainless machine? he/she thinks as well.
2007-01-12 09:12:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋