are pigs smarter than chimpanzees?
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Scientists have found that pigs are smarter than dogs, and can solve problems just as well chimpanzees. ... Overall, research suggests pigs have excellent long-term memories, and are skilled at mazes and other tests requiring location of objects.
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Nature's 5 smartest animal species. Most people might not know it but crows are legendary for their smarts. A 2004 study in the journal Science found that for their size, crows possess unusually big brains, which are proportionate to the chimpanzee brain.
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Dogs and raccoons have a similar number of neurons, which is thought to be a more reliable indicator of intelligence than brain size or even the ability to perform well on “intelligence tests”. However, when it comes to animal intelligence tests, raccoons outshine dogs and other domestic animals.
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We are much more different from chimps than dogs are different from wolves. We share about 98-99% of our genes with chimps. ... These genes make us very different. Dogs have genes that make them keep some of the traits that wolves only have as cubs.
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Pigs outperform 3-year-old human children on cognition tests and are smarter than any domestic animal, and animal experts consider them more trainable than cats or dogs.
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Chimpanzees are genetically closest to humans, and in fact, chimpanzees share about 98.6% of our DNA. We share more of our DNA with chimpanzees than with monkeys or other groups, or even with other great apes! We also both play, have complex emotions and intelligence, and a very similar physical makeup.
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Pigs are very intelligent, far more intelligent than your average dog and far more so than they are given credit for. A pet pig can be potty trained and learn its name in one day. However, the elephant is still more intelligent than the pig. ... Elephants plan, think ahead, and coordinate.
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They know more about the way we live, and they are smarter about words, vocabulary and facial expressions, although Clever Hans, a brilliant horse, was smart that way. In general, dogs have a higher interspecies social intelligence than most other species, certainly higher than either humans or horses.
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Chimpanzees and other great apes are known for their intelligence: They can learn words, play with objects, and even seem to mourn the deaths of their friends. But just as for humans, cognitive abilities vary from one animal to the next.
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Crows tend to have big brains compared to their body size, Brown says. In mammals, the bigger-brained are humans and dolphins; in birds, it's parrots and crows. And getting into the neuroscientific nitty gritty of it all, the part of the brain responsible for crow smarts is the “nidopallium caudolaterale”.
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It seemed so cut and dry when last year, researchers at Vanderbilt University declared that yes, dogs were, in fact, smarter than cats. Their findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, concluded that canines had significantly more cortical neurons in the brain than felines.
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Although gorillas are far more powerful, I'd be much more cautious around a random chimpanzee. Chimps are enough stronger than we are (roughly five times as strong, pound per pound) that we have no chance against them.
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In my personal farm life experience, the cow is definitely smarter than a sheep, although that really isn't saying the cow is very smart. In my opinion, a cow's intelligence is much outshone by a goat's which is then surpassed by a horse's intelligence.
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Dogs can join the police force and monkeys are our fellow primates, but new research found that parrots might be the smartest animal of them all. A new study found that African Grey Parrots performed as well as three-year-old children on a mental test.
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Wolves Are Probably Smarter Than Our Dogs. My chocolate lab, Loretta Lou, is one of the most intelligent dogs I know. ... They found domesticated dogs cannot make the connection between cause and effect. Wolves, however, can.
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Geese are appreciably smarter that either ducks or chickens. I would put them in this order; geese, Muscovy ducks, chickens, mallard-derived ducks. What we see as intelligence is partially a reflection of temperament.
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Orcas' brains are 2 1/2 times average -- similar to those of chimpanzees. But scientist think that looking just at the brain-body ratio seriously underestimates the thinking power of larger marine mammals. In other words, orcas might be even much smarter than the size of their big brain suggests.