Which animal is the smartest? Why?
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rats bats and dolphins..
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That question is irrelevant, they are both entirely different species, and as such they are both smart in different ways.. both cats and dogs are highly intelligent species as well as having individuals who have different levels of intelligence. You really can't compare them and say that all cats are smarter than dogs (or vice versa) there are individuals of each species that are more gifted than others and less so. My cats all learned how to open cupboards, drawers and doors by watching the oldest cat, and yet my dog still cannot grasp the concept of it no matter how much he watches the cats. Then again my cats cant learn how to sit, spin, jump or rollover no matter how much I try to teach them... but the dog easily learns from me how to do tricks.. with the exception that my other dog is not nearly as fast a learner as the first dog. It doesnt mean any one of them is smarter than the other it just means they each have different but equally amazing skills and abilities.
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Did you know frogs are good bio-indicators because...\n1. they spend part of their life cycle on land and some in water\n2. have a permeable skin (which allows substances to move relatively freely into its body) and\n3. absorb and concentrate (make stronger) toxins (poisonous substances) in their fatty tissues\n\nDid you know that humans are also animals?\n\nIs a world population of 6 billion too many? Compare that with animals. There are more than a million animal species. There are 6,000 species of reptiles, 73,000 kinds of spiders, and 3,000 types of lice. For each person there is about 200 million insects. The 4,600 kinds of mammals represent a mere 0,3% of animals and the 9000 kinds of birds only 0,7%. The most numerous bird specie is the red-billed quelea of southern Africa. There are an estimated 100 trillion of them.\n\nMammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.\n\nAfrican elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.\n\n There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.\n\nA house fly lives only 14 days.\n\nA dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.\n\nThe oldest breed of dog is the Saluki.\n\nThe bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.\n\nAn ostrich can run up to 70 km/h (43mph).\n\nAn annoyed camel will spit at a person.\n\nThe world's smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the sky."\n\nPea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.\n\n75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.\n\nThe pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible.\n\nHerbevores (plant-eating organisms) have more than 1 stomach. \ntry googling. http://www.didyouknow.cd/fastfacts/animals.htm
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Pooh is too scatter-brained, tigger causes distruction with his hyperactivity, Eeyor is just...weird. What about the Owl. I don't remember his name, but he seemed pretty smart. also, Ms. Roo, She is so sweet, she would be a compassionate and clever minister.
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er, smart?\n\n\n\nbwhahahaha!
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who says humans are smarter than other species?? what is your measure of intellegence?
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I think it is the bear. Most of the other animals do not attack unless they are hungry or provoked. But the bear has the unique distinction of attacking without any kind of provocation - just for the fun of it!
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A dolphin...cause they mate for life and they are very intelligent too.
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Intelligence ... hands down ... If they are intelligent, more than likely they are smart enough to have a sense of humor ... Dumb gets boring REALLY QUICK!!!
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It is a valid question, and one used against women for years (interestingly, nobody at that time seems to have thought elephants were smarter than men!).  The relationship of the anatomy of the brain to intelligence seems to have only two fairly clear correlations: 1) the amount of surface area folding (sulci and gyri) found on the frontal cortex and 2) the brain weight/body weight ratio.  Under these two correlates, men and women are the same.  There is absolutly no correlation between the size of a person and the intelligence..even though bigger humans tend to have bigger brains.  Now, using the folding and brain to body ratio, we can figure which animals "should" be very smart-and they include ravens, dolphins, and primates.  The raven finding is interesting, because every intelligence test ever given these birds (who have small brains, because they are small animals, but very large brain to body ratios) shows them to be smarter than dogs, and nearly as smart as primates.  Another interesting thing: the only animals that has *both* and larger brain to body ratio than humans *and* increased frontal cortex folding, is the dolphin...makes ya think, huh?
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I'll take a shot.\n\nI would say a rabbit because they eat green vegetation which doesn't pack as much nutrients per weight as ants and termites do.\n\nBut that's all speculation. I should stick to answering questions about rocks.
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Japanese macaque\n\nDon't forget to pick a best answer.
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Cause she is smart and the best.
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according 2 MANY MANY studies of ANCIENT & EXTINCT SPECIES, it is said dat VELOCIRAPTORS r da MOST intelligent species on Earth soo far...hey i dunno...BUT i kinda believe this cuz if u put a lil bit of thot in2 small research done on these dinosaurs...u'll b amazed @ wat these creatures cud b capable of if they were roamin da Earth now...\nsum ppl r stupid 2 tink "oh they cant b soo smart u cant kno dat cuz they r extinct" but nature happens...& i bet they r smarter than any of us...
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This is a nice question & if there was a more intelligent & powerful species then V wuld either b extinct or endangered bcoz as 2day v r dh most intelligient species but our actions hav endangered the survival of many animals & birds
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The Great Apes, and, no - I've seen nothing that would tell me they have religion. I really don't see what your question has to do with evolution. Are you saying that people that don't believe in evolution also don't believe that there are some animals that are smarter than others?
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Koala.  I like the koala because it sleeps a rediculous amount every day and it eats Eucalyptus leaves exclusively.  I also like the koala because it is cute.