2007-05-30 07:14:19 · 5 answers · asked by ·will¹ªm ºn vacation! 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
It's very hard to measure non-human intelligence, especially with an animal that lives such fundamentally different lives to us and hence have very different adaptations and specialisations. An IQ test is therefore difficult to conduct.
There have been quite a number of experiments designed to test how well they can comprehend different things, such as whether they can tell differences in sentence structure. There is an interesting article here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,989714,00.html
There have also been a number of experimetns testing whether they can recognise themselves in the mirror and hae a sense of 'self' which is also taken as a sign of intelligence.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/10/5937
2007-05-30 08:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by Cetacea 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as an actual level no. It is more little things that they have been able to discover like how they problem solve and are able to know their own reflection as them.
Look at it this way too... the human IQ tests out there are not that accurate even and they really do not show someones true IQ. If we cannot even create an accurate test for our own species, how can we expect to make one for another species.
2007-05-31 00:45:55 · answer #2 · answered by The Cheshire 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but the results are skewed, because the IQ test was culturally biased.
2007-06-03 14:10:54 · answer #3 · answered by wordnerd27x 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-06-04 09:08:11 · answer #4 · answered by Victoria V 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by guessing
2007-05-30 14:21:52 · answer #5 · answered by rredrumm00 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋