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So what's the smartest animal /an/? I've heard whales,elephants,apes... so what is it?
>> Anonymous
Hyenas are said to have the intelligence equal to some apes..
Pigs are also unbelievably intelligent. Smarter than dogs.
Taken from google;
>"According a web log, a recent televsion program on the Travel Channel
ranked the 10 smartest animals (in order of increasing intelligence): "squirrel, squid, raven, dog, pig, parrot, elephant, monkey, dolphin, ape"
>> Anonymous
>>178710
I don't know about that list... Parrots can repeat human speech, but they don't understand what they're saying.
>> Anonymous
>>178712

Who says?
>> Anonymous
>>178712
I don't know how accurate that list is, I just googled 'smartest animal'.

But.. Parrots can do MUCH more than imitate speech. And how would you know if they don't understand speech? Say if you use the word 'food' to tell the parrot its time to eat, whenever you say food, it will assume it is time to eat and will associate that word with food. If it is hungry, it might even say 'food' to tell you that it is hungry. That is understanding speech.
>> Anonymous
>>178712

You have obviously never lived with a parrot. Also, google "Alex the African Grey."
>> Anonymous
>>178718
>>178716
I saw a special on parrots, and this expert was told "Does this one talk?" and the expert angrily responded "Parrots do not talk. They're capable of imitating speech the same way they would bird calls, but they lack the mental capacity to understand what the words they're saying mean."

They're basically like autistic kids. Ever taken care of an autistic kid?
>> Anonymous
>>178740

'Expert' is, well... not an expert. Yes, some parrots simply mimic things they hear, but others have demonstrated the ability to respond independently and even communicate answers to simple problems they have been presented with. They're are a lot of parrot species, and making a blanket statement like that just makes him look ignorant. On average, the larger parrots are about as intelligent as a 3-year old. Granted, most 3-year olds are pretty stupid.
>> Anonymous
Humans
>> Anonymous
>>178761
not Americans though eh ^.^
>> Anonymous
>>178716
>That is understanding speech.
No, this is a conditioned response. You can do it with many animals other than parrots. Ask any pet owner.
>> Anonymous
>>178750
>about as intelligent as a 3-year old
How can you make a comparison like that? Intelligence is based on ability to reason, if you condition the parrot to associate A with B, and B with C, it's unlikely that it will associate A with C on its own.
>> Anonymous
>>178794

You don't know much about the psychology of a 3 year old, do you? Most wouldn't associate A with C, either. That kind of abstract reasoning doesn't appear until later.

>>178793

By your definition, everything we do is a conditioned response. We associate words with their meaning because we were conditioned to from an early age. You know "apple" because that is what your mother said repeatedly as you ate or showed you an apple. Later, you used that word when you wanted an apple. Many animals do the same thing given the opportunity, it just that their capacity for vocabulary is somewhat limited because language as we know it is not something evolution has required of them.

Now get back in your skinner box and shut the hell up.
>> Anonymous
>squirrel, squid, raven, dog, pig, parrot, elephant, monkey, dolphin, ape

How about: "No." You have to name the species not just a generic family. There are plenty of monkeys who are stupid. And the Border Collie is so much more intelligent than Afghan dogs, but some species of crows should be most likely before them. The intelligence of pigs is overrated, they are just average. And why the fuck are squirrels included? (The other included other 8 are okay if you take the most intelligent species and don't take the order too seriously.) One replacement for pig and squirrel at the bottom of the list could be raccoons.
>> Anonymous
>>178815

To answer the question of the OP, the Great Apes are most likely the most intelligent animals. However, it's hard to say how intelligent dolphins really are.
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The nigger is the smartest animal, it is capable of imitating nearly every aspect of human existence.
>> Anonymous
Primates, whales, dolphins, and pigs.

Yes, I said pigs.
>> Anonymous
>>178837
So did a lot of other people, gg.
>> Anonymous
Homo sapiens is the smartest animal. It's a species of bipedal ape, in case you didn't know.
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teh raven is very intelligent !
>> Anonymous
>>178846
I did know and I thought I would not have to mention humans, but anon has to state the obvious.
>> Anonymous
>>178899
Well, it IS the right answer. Unless you are of the opinion that humans are plants or bacteria.
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I hear polar bears are kinda smart, somewhere in the tops at least. Not sure though.

But it depends what you define by "smart", because if it's "like humans" then..
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Clearly velociraptor.
>> Anonymous
>>178909
That sort of Velociraptors can be smarter than humans, because they are imaginary.

Real velociraptors... well, nobody cares about them, really, since they were more like angry toothed turkies.
>> Anonymous !nSuMU9VsPQ
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>> Anonymous
What about the Utahraptor?
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Giant isopods.
>> Lucemon
this also depends on what type of intelligence is being referred to.

When someone asks "Which animal is the most intelligent?", they mean compared to human intelligence. Which is very homocentric and unfair. Animals are as intelligent as they need to be to survive. Dolphins are very smart because they need to learn quickly, remember a lot, and know how to navigate and find food and evade danger in a huge 3-D environment where nothing is ever the same day to day. Predators are generally more intelligent than herbivores because they need to plan and strategize in order to get their meals. Many insects and spiders show remarkable intelligence. The jumping spider Portia is an example. It decoys and tricks other spiders with their own courtship signals, makes plans about how to catch specific prey, and uses a wide variety of techniques to hunt.

All animals are intelligent in their own way. How intelligent only matters to us.
>> Anonymous
>>178709
That's sad...

IMO: Dolphins.
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>>178909
Hey, you there that watches too much Jurassic Park.
Velociraptors look like this.
>> Anonymous
>>178778
Who invented the lightbulb? The atomic bomb? The aeroplane? The assembly line? TV? The internet?
>> Anonymous
Parrots can do a lot more than imitate speech, regardless of whether they understand it or not. I believe they also have good memory skills, I've seen parrots match shapes and colors together and I think there was a parrot that remembered simple math problems or something like that.
>> Anonymous
>>179015
The first aeroplane was designed by a French man.
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>>178778
>eh ^.^
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>> Anonymous
>>178857
Smart bird is smart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ykewnc0oE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P8Nwl7FAJk
>> Anonymous
I have parrot that can call the dogs when he gets scared, and imitates cat sounds to get rid of the rabbits. He also makes vacuum sounds when he spills his food. They may not know what words mean, but they can understand the effects they have.
>> Anonymous !mFK66iWE8c
ehhhh
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papillons.
>> asd
papillons? he said smartest, not sexiest.
>> Anonymous
some crows have ben known to be able to pick locks on cars, and some dogs with the proper placement of peanut butter have been able to service woman to an orgasmic state!
>> Anonymous
gtfo peanut butter
>> Anonymous
>>179074

The smartest dogs don't even need the peanut butter.
>> Anonymous
lol...smart dogs...oxymoron.