My tablet, my tablet can you recall, what animal is the smartest one of all?
We tend to think of humans as being the most intelligent of all in the animal
kingdom, but there are others that are just as smart. We always hear about
the chimpanzees and the rats, but what about the other animals?
Some animals live in the ocean, some fly in the air, and some walk with us
across the land… just what is animal intelligence? According to
Zooportraits.com:
They have found ways to change their habits and behaviors to adapt to the
Earth changes for millions of years!
Some animal species have been forming social groups long before humans
discovered Facebook, Instagram and other social media. Let’s look at a few
of the smartest animals on Earth!
Octopuses
The world’s smartest invertebrates, animals without skeletons, are
octopuses.
Octopuses should be smart…. They have eight legs and NINE brains!!! They
have more to work with than most of the other animals. Octopuses can
protect themselves by pretending to be other animals. They have also l
earned to use tools to survive.
Octopuses can carry out complex tasks, such as opening a jar to get to its contents. Not only do they have a good short and long term memory but also a remarkable ability to learn new skills from the moment they’re born. For example, the mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) is able toimpersonate other species in order to protect itself from predators. Well, at least a female giant Pacific octopus named Billye can. Biologists at the Seattle Aquarium put Billye’s strength and smarts to the test with a bottle-opening challenge. The clever cephalopod was able to unlock the top and access her snack in five minutes. Perhaps that’s unsurprising for a creature known to open clam shells and other stubborn-shelled mollusks without a shucking knife. [The 5 Smartest Non-Primates on the Planet] Yes, like chimpanzees, dolphins and crows, octopuses are among the special set of intelligent animals that have been observed using tools. In 2009, scientists reported they had watched veined octopuses (Amphioctopus marginatus) picking up discarded coconut shells and using them like mobile homes.
Whales and Dolphins
The largest brained animals of the ocean are the whales and dolphins. They
are also considered some of the smartest oceanic animals alive.
Whales and dolphins have large brains; brainy dolphins have a brain to
body ratio second only to humans. Large-brained creatures generally have
a few things in common: they live long lives;
they are sociable; their behaviour is complicated…
Elephants
The largest brained animals on land are elephants. I know you have heard
that an elephant never forgets! There are other things elephants can do too!
Ducks, Parrots, Ravens and Crows
Now let’s look at some of our friends that fly! They have to be smart also, so
they don’t get lost. The sky is large you know!
Pigs
This gives you a whole different way of looking at these animals! Would you
care to play a game against a pig?
Bees
Entomologists, scientists who study insects, have been studying bees for
hundreds of years have found that most hives are 95% female bees!
What an example of Girl Power!
Dogs
We can’t forget some of our best friends!
“In many ways dogs may be more human-like than any other species, even non-human primates,” researchers wrote in a 2008 dog intelligence study published in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. In a separate study, Brian Hare, an expert in canine cognition, showed that dogs can follow and respond to human gestures, like pointing and eye movements, without training. This so-called “theory of mind” ability “is so important to our species,” writes Slate’s David Grimm, “that without it, we would have trouble learning and interacting with the world around us.” One the smartest dogs in the world (or at least with the most impressive vocabulary) is a border collie named Rico. Rico knows the name to more than 200 items — he can retrieve the object from a jumble of stuff after hearing the name only once. (Rico also took third prize in De Waal’s “Animal Noble Prizes”) Another dog, Chaser, knows more than 1,000 objects and can understand English grammar. She isn’t the first animal to have a basic understanding of grammar. Studies published in the journal Cognition in 1984 indicated that dolphins can also grasp elements of grammar.
So maybe this is why they are used as service animals for us.
My tablet, my tablet now sitting on my lap,
Thank you my tablet with your Internet and Google too!
Now we can be a little smarter than we were when we started!
We can name other smart animals on the land, in the air and in the oceans
and learn more about them as we grow.
This has been some good information to begin to know!