Animal Intelect

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. -Alfred A. Montapert

   Something that really interests me is the behavior of animals. Like dogs for instance all dogs have such different personalities. And they're really smart to. My dog never fails to amaze me with the predictable and unpredictable things he does.  .Watch this video and you defiantly  won't question a dogs intelligence.Chaser memorized 1,022 nouns! some humans can't even remember that many.   I think a lot of dogs are smarter than some humans. I think the level of animal intelligence continues to amaze people. Dogs also have awesome communication skills, as demonstrated in this video .

Irene Pepperberg explains exactly what iv just explained to you about animals, in a National Geographic interview done by  Virginia Morel. The interview focus on Pepperberg's lengthy study of a brilliant parrot name Alex.


"Certain skills are considered key signs of higher mental abilities: good memory, a grasp of grammar and symbols, self-awareness, understanding others' motives, imitating others, and being creative. Bit by bit, in ingenious experiments, researchers have documented these talents in other species, gradually chipping away at what we thought made human beings distinctive while offering a glimpse of where our own abilities came from. Scrub jays know that other jays are thieves and that stashed food can spoil; sheep can recognize faces; chimpanzees use a variety of tools to probe termite mounds and even use weapons to hunt small mammals; dolphins can imitate human postures; the archerfish, which stuns insects with a sudden blast of water, can learn how to aim its squirt simply by watching an experienced fish perform the task. And Alex the parrot turned out to be a surprisingly good talker."