Next Intelligent Species?

Question

Lets say Humans all of a sudden left Earth and now we live in other Star Systems. What do you think the next intelligent species would be? I would say Octopus, Squid, or even an Ape.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Apes have been showing definite signs of tool usage (though not tool making, yet).
But another species that uses tools, and solves problems is the raven.
The raven has been shown to use a short straw in order to pull a longer straw to them so they can then use the longer straw to get the food object they want which is out of their reach.

Pretty nifty, eh?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Might never be one.
If I had to choose, I'm going to say a species of monkey, don't know which one.

The other great apes will be extinct in the not-too-distant future. I think they're doomed even if we left them alone now.

Answer 5

Some animals, including Great apes, crows, dolphins, dogs, elephants, and parrots are seen as intelligent in ways that other animals are not. Crows have been attributed with human-like intelligence by almost every culture that has encountered them.

Different animals seem to have different kinds of cognitive processes. One question that can be asked coherently is how far different species are intelligent in the same ways as humans are, i.e. are their cognitive processes similar to ours. Not surprisingly, our closest biological relatives, the great apes, tend to do best on such an assessment. It is less clear that the species traditionally held to be intelligent do unusually well against this standard, though among the birds, corvids and parrots typically are found to perform above average.

Domesticated animals tend to perform well, however the issues between unintentional human bias towards obedience and conditioned response associated with domestication makes the values of these assertions dubious at best.

Despite ambitious claims, evidence of unusually high human-like intelligence among cetaceans is patchy, partly because the cost and difficulty of carrying out research with marine mammals mean that experiments frequently suffer from small sample sizes and inadequate controls and replication. Octopuses have also been reported to exhibit a number of higher-level problem-solving skills, but cephalopod intelligence apparently hasn't been sufficiently researched, as the validity of most findings is still contested. Of the parrot family, the African Grey Parrot is understood to be the most intelligent.

The most intelligent, according to widespread belief, and most studied in relation to intelligence are the following species:

whales - most intelligent ocean species (playful, whales have brains of up to 10kg)
elephants - most intelligent herbivore species, also more intelligent than any carnivore (capable of art, tool use, playful, brains up to 5 kg)
apes - with humans being the most intelligent of them all (brains up to 2 kg)
carnivores - considered intelligent by pet owners, with cats, dogs and foxes mostly appreciated for their predatory cunning, necesary for survival (brains weight under 1kg, several hundred grams; 250g for lions, 70 g for dogs and 40 g for domestic cats)
other domesticated species, like horses, cows and pigs are considered intelligent. Some other, like oxen are famed for their herd animal stupidity (brains under 1 kg, several hundred grams)
parrots and crows - most intelligent birds (brains up to 30 grams, capable of many tricks)
sharks and rays - most intelligent fishes (brains up to 100g; 35 g for white shark; other fishes have brains few grams at most, though elephantnose fish has a very large brain (2g) for its size, and brain to body mass ratio 1:50, and is capable of sophisticated electrolocation)
cephalopodes - most intelligent invertebrates (brains up to 20 grams, larger than almost any non-mammal marine life)

Answer 6

Red Staters.

Answer 7

Dolphins.

Fear the dolphins.

Answer 8

apes