which animals are surprisingly intelligent? so no elephants, chimpansee and dolphins.

which animals are surprisingly intelligent? so no elephants, chimpansee and dolphins.

  1. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Seaguls have to be pretty smart. They fly around in groups like crows do.

  2. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    some ants have been known to pass the mirror test

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      the mirror test is hot bullshit and makes many, many assumptions

      what this actually is, is pantomiming grooming behavior to direct a conspecific to remove contaminants. this is communication behavior, not self recognition.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        i'll give you self recognition by sticking my foot so far up your arse you'll pass the mirror test

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Shhh, only dreams now.

  3. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    How smart are humans compared to animals really? Isn't pretty much everything we can do down to the ability of the few exceptional outliers like Newton being able to write down and share their achievements?
    If a group of current day humans were wiped of their memories and placed on another planet, how many generations would it be before they stopped living like animals?
    If orcas lived on land with a more ape-like body, would they be developing tools?

  4. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Clownfish and pufferfish are fairly easy to train.

  5. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The issue with determining a lot of animal intelligence is essentially Dunning Kreuger; there's a big valley of animals where we don't know if they're just stupid or willfully ignoring testing rewards and etc., and then we also don't know how to distinguish between those that don't cooperate because of decisionmaking vs those that don't because of instinct.
    We just lack the reliable tools to deal with animals in that middle valley of our testing experience.

  6. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Humans: dogs must be stupid because they eat fresh, recently digested food that doesn't contain any bacteria that harm them and is rich in easily digestible nutrients due to already taking one trip through an intestine
    Also humans: Is that months old rotten cabbage that's mostly bacteria shit by now? Das poggers! I can't help myself from warming it up and eating it with aged corpses that have been ground up and stuffed into intestines before sitting, drying out, and decomposing for even longer!

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >dogs must be stupid
      they are though

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Fuck off retard

  7. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Some ants are self aware (pass mirror test) and do "large" scale farming (including keeping other animls for food)

  8. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dikkop birds watch crocodile eggs when they hunt and chirp to warn the crocodiles if the eggs are in danger

  9. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    aquatic life that visit cleaning stations (reefs with cleaner fish like wrasses) are noted to be higher IQ, because they can resist their instincts to consoom and get their parasites eaten off + a pleasing massage. Wrasses pass the mirror test and are known to "cheat" i.e., eat pieces of flesh...but the customers don't seem to mind.

  10. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >At the center of the story is Vladimir Markov, a poacher who met a grisly end in the winter of 1997 after he shot and wounded a tiger, and then stole part of the tiger's kill.

    >The injured tiger hunted Markov down in a way that appears to be chillingly premeditated. The tiger staked out Markov's cabin, systematically destroyed anything that had Markov's scent on it, and then waited by the front door for Markov to come home.

    >"This wasn't an impulsive response," Vaillant says. "The tiger was able to hold this idea over a period of time." The animal waited for 12 to 48 hours before attacking.

    >When Markov finally appeared, the tiger killed him, dragged him into the bush and ate him. "The eating may have been secondary," Vaillant explains. "I think he killed him because he had a bone to pick."

  11. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Crocodilians, monitor lizards, and king cobras are all the heavy lifting intellectual champions of the reptile world. It's well-stated how intelligent crocodilians are, but monitor lizards are also very crafty. King cobras aren't on the same level, but they definitely think faster and respond to situations faster than other snakes.

  12. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The fact that you can read this sentence makes me spiral into a THC-like trance of wondering how the fuck any of this was possible from an evolutionary perspective.

    I acknowledge that many of what the species homo has once believed to be unique to "us" are actually present in many clades up to and including language and the passing down of knowledge. "We" conduct experiments using MRI to understand the complexities of the brains of other genera to see what is and isn't activating. "We" are not unique. But aren't "we?"

    Is there any or will there be any future study/ies which precisely and completely map out what level of understanding, awareness, comprehension (however you want to put it) of other genera? What drove "us" to "consciousness?" Did/do all species of homo actually comprehend their condition? What is the threshold of such an evolutionary quirk taking place, and why would it come about? What other genera if any have comprehension of their condition to even a fraction of a degree to "our" own?

    What is the real truth of homo and "our" seemingly exceptional understanding of awareness? What is the truth of "our" evolution?

    Because, to be very honest with you, as someone who autodidactically has studied biology, taxonomy, ecology for many years, something is really not adding up. Particularly, it seems to me, that there is a huge gap between "ourselves" and every other genus on the planet.

    "Oh yeah so in a geologically very short period of time there was homo from an ancient ape branch. And all of them came from one region of the Congo. And other homo species were around that are also from the Congo but left sooner and migrated so they were different like some were stout and some were broad shouldered and some were really close to 'us' but got outbred. And then suddenly let's say idk 300,000 years is how long 'we've' really been around heh"

    This does not, to my knowledge, coalesce with the evolutionary trajectory of any other animal.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >What drove "us" to "consciousness?
      the entire existence of our lineage did it, conscience became more and more clear as our abstract intelligence grew over uncountable generations ever since we stopped living on trees

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        This
        The development 9f consciousness was akin to waking from a dream or stupor over hundreds of thousands of years and countless biological generations

  13. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark#Diet
    >In 2020, marine biologists Sasha Dines and Enrico Gennari published a documented incident in the journal Marine and Freshwater Research of a group of great white sharks exhibiting pack-like behaviour, successfully attacking and killing a live juvenile 7 m (23 ft) humpback whale. The sharks utilized the classic attack strategy used on pinnipeds when attacking the whale, even utilizing the bite-and-spit tactic they employ on smaller prey items.
    >A second incident regarding great white sharks killing humpback whales involving a single large female great white nicknamed Helen was documented off the coast of South Africa. Working alone, the shark attacked a 33 ft (10 m) emaciated and entangled humpback whale by attacking the whale's tail to cripple it before she managed to drown the whale by biting onto its head and pulling it underwater. The attack was witnessed via aerial drone by marine biologist Ryan Johnson, who said the attack went on for roughly 50 minutes before the shark successfully killed the whale. Johnson suggested that the shark may have strategized its attack in order to kill such a large animal.

  14. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pet scorpion has been blowing my mind lately. The predation is so cool. You don't expect a "bug" to be so intelligent.

  15. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Crocodiles, especially Cuban Crocodiles, are crafty little fuckers. I’d argue they’re smarter than actual Cubans.

  16. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Alex the African grey parrot
    >Pepperberg did not claim that Alex could use "language", instead saying that he used a two-way communications code.[14] Listing Alex's accomplishments in 1999, Pepperberg said he could identify 50 different objects and recognize quantities up to six; that he could distinguish seven colors and five shapes, and understand the concepts of "bigger", "smaller", "same", and "different", and that he was learning "over" and "under".[2] Alex passed increasingly difficult tests measuring whether humans have achieved Piaget's Substage 6 object permanence. Alex showed surprise and anger when confronted with a nonexistent object or one different from what he had been led to believe was hidden during the tests.

    >Alex had a vocabulary of over 100 words,[16] but was exceptional in that he appeared to have understanding of what he said. For example, when Alex was shown an object and asked about its shape, color, or material, he could label it correctly.[14] He could describe a key as a key no matter what its size or color, and could determine how the key was different from others.[7]

    >Looking at a mirror, he said "what color", and learned the word "grey" after being told "grey" six times.[17] This made him the first and only non-human animal to have ever asked a question, let alone an existential one (Apes who have been trained to use sign-language have so far failed to ever ask a single question).[18]

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Alex showed surprise and anger when confronted with a nonexistent object or one different from what he had been led to believe was hidden during the tests.
      >autistic screeching

  17. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why is this whole thread just seething about cats? Did Reddit go down again?

  18. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    elephant fish. They speak a language via electroreception.

  19. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    probably the most intelligent r-selected species

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      it would probably take maybe 10 years of selective breeding to produce a k-selected octopus that would destroy the entire marine ecosystem

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        There's already an octopus species that can reproduce multiple times and is somewhat social. It could be the beginning of a far more K-selective octopus species as well as one that's social, as we are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larger_Pacific_striped_octopus

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          based

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            looks like a dude rubbing his chin

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          > Once the male and female LPSO decide to mate, they join together in a beak-to-beak position, embracing in an entanglement of arms.[2] Unlike some species of octopus, female LPSO are not cannibalistic during mating and are rather gentle, leaving only surface level sucker marks as a result of the beak-to-beak embrace
          >Pair bonding has been observed in LPSO through behaviors such as food and den sharing
          Holy fuck these suckers are fucking precious
          >has yet to be scientifically described. Because of this, LPSO has no official scientific name
          MARINE BIOLOGY FAGS THE FUCK YOU DOING
          STUDY
          THESE
          OCTOPI

          Why is this whole thread just seething about cats? Did Reddit go down again?

          Every thread just has a chance to become a cat vs dog consolewar now, thats just Wauf's nature.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >OCTOPI
            fun fact:
            >“Octopuses” gives the word an English ending to match its adoption as an English word. Generally, when a noun enters into English, it is pluralized as an English word rather than in its original form. Octopuses may sound peculiar to some, but this is the preferred plural
            I'll admit there is an argument for "octopodes" though

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        >He's not hurting any people
        It's not about the harm he's doing at the present to the animals, it's what he's revealing about his character, what he's experimenting with and working himself up to. Serial killers usually start out hurting animals, just for the joy of it. Child sexual abusers usually start with e-boi and child porn. It is a transgressive act that emboldens them if they get away with it. They test the waters, they build up their confidence, double down on their perverse pleasures, and like many porn/fetish addicts they grow bored and then move on to more serious things.

        People who abuse animals eventually start abusing humans. It's like clockwork- they practice on animals, but eventually the thrill becomes routine, so they move up to humans. This is why the police take such an interest if pets suddenly start getting murdered, it usually means a person will soon go missing.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith is a fun book

  20. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Monitors are pretty smart as far as lizards go.
    Man I wish I had space for a blackthroat or AWM.

  21. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >egg on branch
    wow i did not even think that existed

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Weirdly enough, fairy terns are one of the more successful non-seagull urban seabirds thanks to egg on branch. They’ll use big shade trees and urban plantings in big cities like Honolulu as nesting habitat as opposed to every other seabird that has to nest on/ under the ground or on shrubs on predator free islands. The babies also have spiked claws to dig in on the branch so they don’t get blown off.

  22. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The intelligence of all domesticated animals is a wash. They’re all equally dumb in different ways and if they aren’t dumb yet people are working to fix that. Except for cats. They’re the dumbest. We should have domesticated foxes. And horses. They’re the smartest.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >We should have domesticated foxes.
      Based. Mankind should put more effort into continuing and expanding that half-assed russian experiment.

  23. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Goldfish. They aren't anywhere close to intelligent, they're just more intelligent than the general population may think. They have decent memories and can be trained to do simple tricks, like swimming through hoops or pushing a ball into a net. They each have their own personalities too. I love those lil guys.

    Also other species of popular pet fish. I have 4 male guppies in a tank, 3 of which look identical but one is a completely different colour. The 3 are racist and pick on their different coloured brother. This means that my 3 racist fish have enough self awareness to recognise themselves and compare themselves to eachother.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      g*ldfish must accept more FOC refugees into their tanks or pesca civilization will collapse.

  24. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Fucking ravens. Unbelievable, but they actually have at cognitive ability comparable to that of chimpanzees and dolphins, which is incredible since they have a brain the size of a walnut.

    Also pigs, they are actually smarter than dogs, which is nuts when you consider how smart a German shepherd is.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Also pigs, they are actually smarter than dogs
      People always say this. What exactly can a pig do better than a dog?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        They can speak the language of sheep.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's a misconception spread by a low quality study that made it to pop sci rags and got clickbait headlines. Basically, pigs and dogs have different sets of cognitive skills, and behave differently. Pigs are rather homogenous and nearly wild and therefore balanced in their tendencies but due to breeding, dogs vary wildly in behavior and intelligence with some being neurotic about stuff to the point of not displaying whatever intelligence they have.

        These particular scientists compared average pigs to extremely dull dogs in areas dogs suck at. Not herding dogs - retrievers and hounds. The pigs showed 0 social inhibitions and furiously solved some puzzles, while the dogs begged or got distracted sniffing around. It seems puzzling that people would believe it. It's the same kind of bullshit science as "pigs are smarter than chimpanzees" and "chimpanzees are smarter than people" - pigs have specific skills that range from vastly superior to vastly inferior.

        Better constructed studies have found that the difference in general intelligence between the animals is negligible, once you control for motivation issues, but pigs have stronger spatial intelligence and dogs have superior social comprehension. For an example of how the animals differ, a dog may be smart enough to open a door, but if they fail on their first attempt and slam it by accident, they might not re-attempt it any time that month, or never try at all if they've been punished for clawing at doors. A pig will try again and again until it learns to open the door. On the other hand a herding dog can learn 10,000 words, basic grammar, and integrate pretty well into complex human society, and the pig's social behavior is cat tier and it will casually eat sleeping humans.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Is there somewhere I can see more details? I'm curious what specific spatial tasks they tried.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            I can't find anything offhand that aren't vegan propaganda, chinese propaganda, or meta-studies. I should have bookmarked it, but in one they were just solving a maze, dogs tended to get distracted, and in another they trained a pig to move a joystick to move a dot to get food, and the dog (it was a beagle or some other dumbass breed) couldn't do it. But you know, dog intelligence varies pretty wildly, and they can be real spergs about the conditions under which they will do anything, unlike pigs, which "rationally" pursue food (are not raised in a social situation where humans give permission for everything, right down to eating).

            I believe that, due to their roughly equivalent brains and lifestyle, the pig is simply a less social dog with better spatial reasoning, while the dog is vastly more social than the pig at the cost of some basic coordination and spatial skills.

            In other words dogs are stacies and pigs are dweebs

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >it will casually eat sleeping humans.
          That's a sign of god tier intelligence

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        nothing important. just spatial reasoning.
        the things that are important, dogs do better than pigs.

        scientists like to glorify spatial intelligence over social intelligence to stroke their own egos but in reality social intelligence is more important especially at these lower intelligence levels, which is why we eat pigs but not dogs, and would put autists in zoos no matter how good they were at counting beans at a glance if they weren't at least as social as great apes. social intelligence is required to make spatial intelligence relevant.

        hence why it's cool that crows have both.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          You don't get to decide what's important either. If it wasn't important, they wouldn't have evolved it.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            social intelligence allowed our languages and culture to emerge, without it we wouldnt be able to pass along precise information so we could develop all kinds of sciences

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          All that matters is what sub-factor is more g-loaded.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >People always say this
        And those people are always wrong. They have around half the cortex neurons of typical dog, although they might be comparable to some of the retarded breeds.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Pigs have vastly superior spatial reasoning but lack the social facilities of dogs

          Dogs were believed to solve invisible displacement problems but it turns out they were just analyzing the experimenter instead of having a mental model of the visual situation.

          Pigs are the opposite.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >remember individual people's faces
      >seek vengeance against those that have wronged them
      >mourn their dead
      Befriend your local corvids.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Surprisingly
      Everyone already knows ravens are intelligent.

  25. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bears

  26. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hermit Crabs are some of the most intelligent arthropods you're probably going to find.

  27. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Some naggers can actually form a full sentence.

  28. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Be alien
    >pick up random humans
    >hide burgers behind arbitrary puzzles
    >humans do not try to solve the puzzles or start and then give up and do something else
    >they mostly make weird human noises
    >"humans are fucking stupid. these things only follow their instincts"
    >leave humans on earth, never bother with them again
    >pick up some chimps
    >chimps instantly start working to solve the burger puzzle
    >very impressive
    >bring chimps to alien planet as celebrities, deemed one of earth's most intelligent species
    >go back, try again with other great apes
    >all pest
    >aliens spend thousands of years researching ape intelligence and deciding that most of the human brain is dedicated to hard-coded instincts for civilization building and only apes are truly capable of thought
    >apes: where banana

    >be humans
    >get picked up by aliens
    >put in a horrifying room of bizarre architecture
    >there are burgers hidden behind alien contraptions
    >debate if they're poisoned or bait for traps
    >someone tries to get the burger, and then stops when they realize moving parts of the contraption might trigger something
    >everyone argues if getting the burger or ignoring the burger will get them home faster
    >eventually everyone agrees, through a chain of theories, that they're probably trying to see which humans are most edible
    >after no one gets the burger, everyone is sent back home
    >everyone involved congratulates themselves on outsmarting the aliens

    you can not test the intelligence of a species if you can not communicate the significance of an intelligence test to them so you can adjust for their social and introspective tendencies, if present at all. and if you can not communicate with them, their general intelligence is absolutely meaningless. what are they going to do with it? use it for their own sake only. only obedience is relaly relevant to you.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Most often you can easily tell whether an animal is scared and confused. And even for the ''weird human noises'' in your example you could observe a certain complexity even if you don't understand it. Other animals just make the same noise a bunch of times.
      The aliens can also just observe how we live in houses and drive cars.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Most often you can easily tell whether an animal is scared and confused.
        With domesticated animals, not really, they express low levels of fear, confusion, and depression all as the same state of placidity despite being affected the same otherwise

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Fair enough, I guess my cats are just really unhinged, but I highly doubt cats are hiding great problem solving capabilities behind some impenetrable psychological barrier.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      gathering information about the environment is clearly different than staring at the problem for hours, you can detect where the information gathering organs are pointing towards, and if they first look at all posible solutions, just like crows presented with an impossible puzzle vs chickens presented with the same puzzle, the crow will first analyze the puzzle entirely (like going around or search for tools) and the chicken will try pecking on it until it works or it gets tired, avoiding doing a puzzle because it's dangerous requires you to collect the information of it being dangerous in the first place

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >be humans
      >get picked up by aliens
      >get analy probed

  29. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I find it really interesting how several species of heron will use bread as bait to capture fish, they even tap it to make ripples to attract fish and remove the bait if a fish that's too big to eat like a carp comes to eat it.
    They could just eat the bread but are smart enough to plan out that they can get more food by using the bread as bait. Some herons are even known to fly to one area where they learned they can get bread to then carry it to another to fish

  30. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Even a lot of people who know jumping spiders are intelligent don't realize wolfies are about as intelligent themselves. They just don't appear like it initially because of their more aloof behavior.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Most spiders are actually quite intelligent. Sedentary spiders often nest near lights to catch bugs, and some spider species work together and form colonies to net more prey.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm well aware of what spiders do. I keep and observe various local species and I get to see how often they do things that would be surprising id they were all instinct.

  31. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bees were showing signs of mathematical ability. But recent studies suggest they were "cheating".
    https://www.iflscience.com/turns-out-bees-were-cheating-when-they-convinced-us-they-could-do-math-58776

  32. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Box jellyfish is probably the most intelligent animal that diverged the earliest. They have true eyes, movement behavior on the level of fishes, some have complex mating behavior. They have no brain, only a neural net, so it's surprising what they're able to accomplish.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why only two eyes? Why not more?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Box jellyfish have 8 true eyes arranged in radial symmetry around the bell. You can faintly see more eyes on the other side of the jelly.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      "They call them 'box jellyfish', but in point of fact they go for any part of the anatomy."

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I chuckled

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      you can go further than that, how about fungal intelligence?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        they don't have brains but they do mind control
        >When the fungus infects a carpenter ant, it grows through the insect’s body, draining it of nutrients and hijacking its mind. Over the course of a week, it compels the ant to leave the safety of its nest and ascend a nearby plant stem. It stops the ant at a height of 25 centimeters—a zone with precisely the right temperature and humidity for the fungus to grow. It forces the ant to permanently lock its mandibles around a leaf. Eventually, it sends a long stalk through the ant’s head, growing into a bulbous capsule full of spores. And because the ant typically climbs a leaf that overhangs its colony’s foraging trails, the fungal spores rain down onto its sisters below, zombifying them in turn.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          everyone knows about that meme fungus, i was thinking about puzzle-solving slime mold

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >puzzle solving
            they just grow and fill everything up while vaguely going towards chemical clues of food

  33. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Manta Rays.
    I'm not particularly surprised by intelligence in various 'primitive' groups per se. We have tool using wasps and complex problem solving in spiders, amongst others. Relatively high intelligence can pop up everywhere in terms of clades.
    I just don't get why filter feeding of all things would select for intelligence.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      God thought they were cute and gave them a little something extra

  34. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Crocodiles, They're way smarter then most people think.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Mugger crocodiles and American Alligators are known to place sticks and twigs on their snout to lure birds into grabbing them for nesting material, only to be grabbed themselves

  35. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    my fish have figured out that when i turn the light on in the morning it's feeding time because they go berzerk and school together in the corner of the tank where i dump the worms. they also recognise me. i didn't expect fish to be able to think like this but they do

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      im pretty sure thats just basic Pavlovian response to stimuli, most animals can do that

  36. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    cephalopods can be quite intelligent and have a totally different brain architecture compared to vertebrates

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah.
      Octopuses are probably the most intelligent ones, but fucking cuttlefish man.
      I love those small torpedoes.

  37. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Rats are smarter than cats. Most birds are smarter than cats.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Compare animals to chimps dolphins and the such since they are the threshold

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Compare animals to chimps dolphins and the such
        what?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Rats are better studied and easier to study than cats, but not likely to be smarter. Don’t mistake science for truth rather than an anal verification process. It’s very hard to test the intelligence of an animal that will not predictably cooperate because they will refuse food and freedom for reasons only they are aware of. Rats will not. It’s possible rats are actually very dumb and lack the cognitive capacity to irrationally refuse food because they don’t like being in a laboratory. Also see: humans that could do well in school but refuse to.

      Birds are a toss up because avians intelligence works differently. It’s a more distant branch of animal life and they might not even be truly aware if what they’re doing, rather self awareness is a mammalian cope for an error prone thought process.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Compare animals to chimps dolphins and the such since they are the threshold

        Once again, compare other animals intelligence comparable to dolphins and chimps, dumbasses

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Irrational decision making is not a sign of intelligence

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          It actually is, because it's a sign of an inner world and the ability to experience the world subjectively instead of just operating like a simple algorithm. It implies the possibility of reverse causality, which is the bedrock of self awareness.

          >Rationally, you must seek out this food!
          >I'm not going to disgrace myself eating for you, homosexual.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >tfw too smart to not freeze in front of the truck that's going to crush me

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              they're trying to feint the "predator" and dodge at the last minute but they're too slow. it's instinct.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                A domestic cat refusing a food item after it has been offered too many times is also purely operating on instinct. A cat's brain is barely more advanced than a lizard's brain, nothing it does is determined by actual intelligence and decision making

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                A hungry cat refusing food in a stressful environment, when the food is behind a puzzle, is just too pissed to eat that way, and wants to try another way. And will probably succeed, because scientists won't starve the cat, or it will just repeatedly try to escape and attack people.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Gorillas can learn sign language, pigs can play video games, dogs understand over 100 voice commands, rooks grasp the principles of physics better than chimpanzees, and a fucking mosquitofish can count. But a cat can’t?
                That anon is right, Domesticated cats are just a ball of instinct.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >casually genocides birds, the ""free"" animals that soar up high
                >lel, keep counting braincels, I am apex
                >hooman, I shall do nothing for you, or even try to understand anything, now PET ME, prrrr
                Why yes, based cat, right away

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Why yes, based c-ACK

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                The absolute levels of onions required to make this gay post.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                have a nice day

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >pigs can play video games
                so can game journalists

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Gorillas can learn sign language
                Gorillas can be conditioned to wail their arms like crazy when their caretakers want another five million dollars in funding
                Fact not a single gorilla has ever learnt sign language, they are taught monkey sign language instead which conveniently only their care takers can speak
                Fact no gorilla has ever been able to form a sentence
                Fact
                People who speak sign language have reviewed taped of gorillas speaking and they all agree the gorilla doesn't speak sign language
                Fact
                This is how stupid you look

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Koko couldn’t speak. It was a huge scam by her caretaker. If anything she was only conditioned to make signs for certain objects, akin to how a dog is conditioned to certain words.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Still, gorillas and dogs are more intelligent than domestic cats that’s for sure.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                gorillas are smarter than both

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Intelligence not required to reproduce
                >Less intelligent specimens not purged from the genepool by nature
                >Species gradually loses intelligence
                HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN??

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're trying to win a pointless argument in order to gain social standing, but you can't due to the anonymous nature of the board.
                It's instinct.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >You're trying to win a pointless argument in order to gain social standing, but you can't due to the anonymous nature of the board.
                >It's instinct.
                Underrated post, to be quite honest, famalamadingdong

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Social standing
                Nope, personal satisfaction

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Its called being startled you fucking idiot.

              > t same exact shit happened to me and I'm not a deer

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I'm not a deer
                Prove it

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          deciding what is rational for a living being to do is not a sign of intelligence either

          you cam determine rationally which actions will spread their genes but they aren't obligated in any way to take those actions, and there is no consequence in their life they will face for not passing on their genes. they can do whatever they want, even kill themselves.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          it is the most definite sign of higher intelligence. to think wrong you must think and conceive of abstract unreality. flawless operation is the hallmark of an unthinking machine.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Are moths displaying intelligence when they make the wrong decision of flying towards a streetlight?
            Are deer geniuses for freezing in front of a charging truck instead of getting out of the way?
            Are toads showing off their high IQ when they try to mate with goldfish and frogs?
            Or are these animals simply performing wrong actions because they can only perform instinctual actions they're predisposed to do and can't think abstractly?

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Are humans just demonstrating instinctive behavior and inflexibility when they don't work hard and pursue a career because monke just pick fruit? No, that's stupid.

              Are dolphins just instinctively unable to live in certain situations when they kill themselves? That's clearly irrational, they should focus on passing on their genes and can't think abstractly. What about humans? Just instinct.

              Everything is just instinct! If things were smart they would always pursue survival and reproduction at any cost!

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                there are actually people that think that and deny that even humans are self aware. from there, they can justify any atrocity through darwinism. sociopathy is a hell of a worldview.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                why would someone have to remove self-awareness to justify an "atrocity"? liberalism is weird.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Both the situations you described are the result of a thought process and decision making. When a frog grapples a shoe and tries to mate with it it's not thinking about what it wants and what it will achieve, it's just following the basic instinct of attaching itself to anything that moves.

                there are actually people that think that and deny that even humans are self aware. from there, they can justify any atrocity through darwinism. sociopathy is a hell of a worldview.

                >from there, they can justify any atrocity through darwinism
                Whether something is cruel and atrocious or not is determined by the aggressor's intentions, not the victim's feelings.
                A man who takes great pleasure in torturing and killing bugs is morally wrong and undesirable as a community member, not because of the bugs suffering, but because of his sadistic tendencies and lack of respect for life.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >A man who takes great pleasure in torturing and killing bugs is morally wrong and undesirable as a community member, not because of the bugs suffering, but because of his sadistic tendencies and lack of respect for life.
                This isn't actually thought. This is just a verbal expression of your ape instinct to select cooperative individuals for your group and expel those your algorithms have determined to not be cooperative enough.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                The fact that I'm capable of reflecting on these values and changing them as I gather information demonstrates that I'm not holding this opinion simply because of a natural predisposition for it.
                Some people would say that bug torturers are no big deal and some would join them.
                When a cat sees a small critter quickly scuttling in the grass it will attack it. This behavior is shared among all cats (except for the ones that are too old or crippled to do it), they can't unlearn it and will never question it. It's just an instinct, or a reflex.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Spoilers: your opinions change before you’re aware of it

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >When a cat sees a small critter quickly scuttling in the grass it will attack it. This behavior is shared among all cats (except for the ones that are too old or crippled to do it), they can't unlearn it and will never question it. It's just an instinct, or a reflex.
                Kek. Way to work so hard to sound smart just to undo your entire argument at the end through simple ignorance.
                There are COUNTLESS videos of cats staring at pray or pest animals like a retard. It's basically a meme.
                Fucking pseuds.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >A man who takes great pleasure in torturing and killing bugs is morally wrong and undesirable as a community member, not because of the bugs suffering, but because of his sadistic tendencies and lack of respect for life.
                Wrong. They're useful. We're a predatory species with selective empathy that is supposed to stop operating when the difference between prey and us is significant enough, and begin to weaken when other tribes are sufficiently diverged and do not socialize with us.

                A lack of respect for life is ideal if not moral. It is man's purpose and duty to be a destroyer. It's "respect for life" that drives people to hunt the strong, form super-societies, and sterilize the world to end suffering, when in fact we should sadistically take out the weak and be at war with the world to maintain balance.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                In most social contexts a man who is known to crouch on the ground and spend his time giggling while he tortures small animals will be emarginated and eventually forced to undergo psychological evaluation. Still the fact that you're disagreeing with me proves my pont here

                The fact that I'm capable of reflecting on these values and changing them as I gather information demonstrates that I'm not holding this opinion simply because of a natural predisposition for it.
                Some people would say that bug torturers are no big deal and some would join them.
                When a cat sees a small critter quickly scuttling in the grass it will attack it. This behavior is shared among all cats (except for the ones that are too old or crippled to do it), they can't unlearn it and will never question it. It's just an instinct, or a reflex.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'll take the guy that keeps his sickness limited to bugs over the retard that keeps caving in skulls.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >A man who takes great pleasure in torturing and killing bugs is morally wrong and undesirable as a community member, not because of the bugs suffering, but because of his sadistic tendencies and lack of respect for life.
                Wrong. They're useful. We're a predatory species with selective empathy that is supposed to stop operating when the difference between prey and us is significant enough, and begin to weaken when other tribes are sufficiently diverged and do not socialize with us.

                A lack of respect for life is ideal if not moral. It is man's purpose and duty to be a destroyer. It's "respect for life" that drives people to hunt the strong, form super-societies, and sterilize the world to end suffering, when in fact we should sadistically take out the weak and be at war with the world to maintain balance.

                >He's not hurting any people
                It's not about the harm he's doing at the present to the animals, it's what he's revealing about his character, what he's experimenting with and working himself up to. Serial killers usually start out hurting animals, just for the joy of it. Child sexual abusers usually start with e-boi and child porn. It is a transgressive act that emboldens them if they get away with it. They test the waters, they build up their confidence, double down on their perverse pleasures, and like many porn/fetish addicts they grow bored and then move on to more serious things.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Are moths displaying intelligence when they make the wrong decision of flying towards a streetlight?
              >Are deer geniuses for freezing in front of a charging truck instead of getting out of the way?
              >Are toads showing off their high IQ when they try to mate with goldfish and frogs?
              >Or are these animals simply performing wrong actions because they can only perform instinctual actions they're predisposed to do and can't think abstractly?
              none of those are examples of irrational behavior, are you fucking retarded?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        It can't be that hard to study the world's most popular pet animal. You don't even need a lab, you just need some average people anywhere to observe certain behaviours.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Rats are smarter than cats. Most birds are smarter than cats.

          A domestic cat refusing a food item after it has been offered too many times is also purely operating on instinct. A cat's brain is barely more advanced than a lizard's brain, nothing it does is determined by actual intelligence and decision making

          >throw a ball
          >go get it homosexual!
          >cat just sits there
          >dog runs and gets it and brings it back
          >wow dogs are so smart!
          every time.
          Would you get the ball if I did that, anon?

          Plus cats can do tons of tricks and are trainable, they just are harder to motivate and aren't slaves to shitty kibbles and endlessly desperate for attention.

          Here is a cat unlocking and opening a door
          https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cMYcNVKRI3U

          here is a well trained cat

          just because they don't do what you want doesn't mean they're dumb. They are decent problem solvers and many owners are able to figure out what their cat wants by meows/being led to places, so they are not as dumb as dog scientists think.

          >Be alien
          >pick up random humans
          >hide burgers behind arbitrary puzzles
          >humans do not try to solve the puzzles or start and then give up and do something else
          >they mostly make weird human noises
          >"humans are fucking stupid. these things only follow their instincts"
          >leave humans on earth, never bother with them again
          >pick up some chimps
          >chimps instantly start working to solve the burger puzzle
          >very impressive
          >bring chimps to alien planet as celebrities, deemed one of earth's most intelligent species
          >go back, try again with other great apes
          >all pest
          >aliens spend thousands of years researching ape intelligence and deciding that most of the human brain is dedicated to hard-coded instincts for civilization building and only apes are truly capable of thought
          >apes: where banana

          >be humans
          >get picked up by aliens
          >put in a horrifying room of bizarre architecture
          >there are burgers hidden behind alien contraptions
          >debate if they're poisoned or bait for traps
          >someone tries to get the burger, and then stops when they realize moving parts of the contraption might trigger something
          >everyone argues if getting the burger or ignoring the burger will get them home faster
          >eventually everyone agrees, through a chain of theories, that they're probably trying to see which humans are most edible
          >after no one gets the burger, everyone is sent back home
          >everyone involved congratulates themselves on outsmarting the aliens

          you can not test the intelligence of a species if you can not communicate the significance of an intelligence test to them so you can adjust for their social and introspective tendencies, if present at all. and if you can not communicate with them, their general intelligence is absolutely meaningless. what are they going to do with it? use it for their own sake only. only obedience is relaly relevant to you.

          well put

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            on the other hand cats have half as many neurons in their brain as a very small dog so it's more like obedience requires the barest minimum of intelligence

            that is well below "well maybe it's the quality of the connections". they are literally incapable of comprehending social situations and have trouble with object permanence.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >they are literally incapable of comprehending social situations and have trouble with object permanence.
              This sounds a lot more like a dog than a cat

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Anon... cats are dumb. Don't even get me started on feline social comprehension. They have basically none, while dogs are on the level of a human teenager.

                It should not surprise you that the relatively energy wasting social animal is a bit smarter than the glorified mousetrap. Hyenas are also smarter than all other feliforms due to that lifestyle (and also smarter than all caniforms lol).

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >while dogs are on the level of a human teenage
                proof?

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Don't even get me started on feline social comprehension. They have basically none
                >dogs are on the level of a human teenager.
                t. my golden retriever gets my newspaper and my friends ragdoll scratched me

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                fuck off

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                toxofags cant cope that their animal acting aloof and retarded is not a sign of intelligence. lovecraft was a total pseud in this topic for example

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Would you get the ball if I did that, anon?
            N-n-no?
            You're probably just teasing me and not going to throw the ball anyway

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >You're probably just teasing me and not going to throw the ball anyway
              I definitely didn't fake throw it and am not holding it behind my back, keep looking!

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >gf has two cats
            >they are very sweet towards each other
            >take one of them out for a week
            >put them back together in the room
            >the one who stayed in the room won’t recognize the other anymore, starts hissing and hides from her

            Sure they may have accumulated different smells but my goodness they’re fucking dumb if they are unable to figure out that the other one was just gone and has simply returned.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Smell plays a huge role, there's a million videos of cats getting mad at their owners when they smell he/she has pet other cats, even though the cat obviously recognize their owners. Sometimes hissing is just a natural reaction. If you look at people who own servals or caracals they will hiss a lot even if they're not mad.

              I think some cats are really smart but there are definitely some really dumb ones too.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I think some cats are really smart but there are definitely some really dumb ones too.
                You mean there's a spectrum of intelligence that individual members of a species fall upon? Now there's a novel thought.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Absolute cope.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >emu

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >wow dogs are so smart
            Why yes how can you tell?

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Shit's in box
              Simple as

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >can eat toddlers
              >can piss on the carpet

              >don't have to pick up shit with a plastic bag
              >not lab bred by humans to perform specific tasks
              >can survive with or without humans
              >communicate wants and desires to owners

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >don't have to pick up shit with a plastic bag
                in this case you use your bare hands and the same unwashed plastic scoop as last night, for the piss as well, and this occurs in your home, in a substance that contacts the paws and is tracked across your home.
                >not lab bred by humans to perform specific tasks
                should we tell him about the purebred cats? there was an attempt for ratting but the cat proved cowardly and unintelligent so now cats lab bred to perform the task of looking stupid.
                >can survive with or without humans
                many dogs can, many cats can not, and promptly go extinct when they are sufficiently alienated from civilization. it depends on the degree of domestication. many spitz and shepherd breeds have been known to not just survive as street animals, but to survive in the wild and integrate into wolf packs, a task alien to domestic cats outside of delicate ecosystems devoid of competition.
                >communicate wants and desires to owners
                to schizophrenics, yes, but cats are mostly asocial and have extreme difficulty doing anything but yowling out of frustration and walking between people and something they want, unlike dogs which have more social intelligence and can actually communicate somewhat clearly.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Dogs are a macroscopic symbiote that adapted to replace low status humans in advanced societies, raising the overall efficiency of the group and lowering the violent crime rate significantly (non-pitbull dogs have 1/1000th the murder rate of human males). They are more intelligent and their behavior is more variable, depending on their specific symbiotic role with man. The projected evolution of the dog is selection for increased intelligence and specialization as society becomes more organized and advanced, and the bar is raised for man, thus making more and more humans less desirable than a dog.

                Cats are a brood parasite that adapted infant-like social cues to get women and weak men to neurotically protect them as if they were actually human infants. They are less intelligent, like most parasites, and rather than helping their host, mostly spread diseases and even more parasites. The projected evolution of the cat is selection for an increasingly infant-like appearance (maybe even making them bald and fat), lower intelligence, more neotenous behavior, and the natural ability to seek out feminine individuals to parasitize while avoiding overly masculine individuals. In 10,000 years I theorize that cats will emit hormones that stimulate lactation and will primarily breast feed.

                In this situation the cat is actually based.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                cats aren't fully evolved until they instinctively lay on infant faces to kill off the competition

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Sleeps and shits in the same place
                Big brain time, doesn't even need to get up.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >piss on food

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                kek

                https://i.imgur.com/5Xi4TWH.jpg

                >don't have to pick up shit with a plastic bag
                in this case you use your bare hands and the same unwashed plastic scoop as last night, for the piss as well, and this occurs in your home, in a substance that contacts the paws and is tracked across your home.
                >not lab bred by humans to perform specific tasks
                should we tell him about the purebred cats? there was an attempt for ratting but the cat proved cowardly and unintelligent so now cats lab bred to perform the task of looking stupid.
                >can survive with or without humans
                many dogs can, many cats can not, and promptly go extinct when they are sufficiently alienated from civilization. it depends on the degree of domestication. many spitz and shepherd breeds have been known to not just survive as street animals, but to survive in the wild and integrate into wolf packs, a task alien to domestic cats outside of delicate ecosystems devoid of competition.
                >communicate wants and desires to owners
                to schizophrenics, yes, but cats are mostly asocial and have extreme difficulty doing anything but yowling out of frustration and walking between people and something they want, unlike dogs which have more social intelligence and can actually communicate somewhat clearly.

                I wasn't trying to make a huge statement just that the infographic was stupid

                https://i.imgur.com/oQ3eAAU.jpg

                Dogs are a macroscopic symbiote that adapted to replace low status humans in advanced societies, raising the overall efficiency of the group and lowering the violent crime rate significantly (non-pitbull dogs have 1/1000th the murder rate of human males). They are more intelligent and their behavior is more variable, depending on their specific symbiotic role with man. The projected evolution of the dog is selection for increased intelligence and specialization as society becomes more organized and advanced, and the bar is raised for man, thus making more and more humans less desirable than a dog.

                Cats are a brood parasite that adapted infant-like social cues to get women and weak men to neurotically protect them as if they were actually human infants. They are less intelligent, like most parasites, and rather than helping their host, mostly spread diseases and even more parasites. The projected evolution of the cat is selection for an increasingly infant-like appearance (maybe even making them bald and fat), lower intelligence, more neotenous behavior, and the natural ability to seek out feminine individuals to parasitize while avoiding overly masculine individuals. In 10,000 years I theorize that cats will emit hormones that stimulate lactation and will primarily breast feed.

                In this situation the cat is actually based.

                Your argument is that dogs are a tool for humans and you don't like cats because they don't have an immediate utilitarian value to you, and that your masculinity is entirely tied to you having a dog who does follows your every command unconditionally.

                Plus cat behavior isn't as evolved as you think. Some researchers literally argue that they aren't even domesticated depending on the definition. Big cats act almost exactly the same as house cats: they sit in boxes, chase lasers, and you can befriend literally any type of cat. The only difference is if you fuck up one will kill you with their warning scratch instead of you only requiring a bandaid.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >can eat toddlers
              >can piss on the carpet

              >don't have to pick up shit with a plastic bag
              >not lab bred by humans to perform specific tasks
              >can survive with or without humans
              >communicate wants and desires to owners

              >Retarded

              >Twice as retarded

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        It actually is, because it's a sign of an inner world and the ability to experience the world subjectively instead of just operating like a simple algorithm. It implies the possibility of reverse causality, which is the bedrock of self awareness.

        >Rationally, you must seek out this food!
        >I'm not going to disgrace myself eating for you, homosexual.

        deciding what is rational for a living being to do is not a sign of intelligence either

        you cam determine rationally which actions will spread their genes but they aren't obligated in any way to take those actions, and there is no consequence in their life they will face for not passing on their genes. they can do whatever they want, even kill themselves.

        it is the most definite sign of higher intelligence. to think wrong you must think and conceive of abstract unreality. flawless operation is the hallmark of an unthinking machine.

        >intentionally making your life harder because Reasons™ is actually totally intelligent because... well only robots try to do everything perfectly all the time!!!!
        >i was totally being intentional when i just didnt care to do my homework, i wasnt just sitting around wishing I was animalistically entertaining myself all class
        An intelligent person would realize that doing well in school, despite any of their own personal feelings about it, is worth their time for a plethora of reasons. You all are coping into reality some ex post facto justification for distractedness and lack of intention. For everyone one intentional decision to not care about school, every other lazy ass who didn't try was just being a lazy ass who wanted to go outside and play instead - i.e. acting animalistically.
        >cats are totally Le Noble Superiority™
        No, they're just stubborn assholes. Anyone can pretend to be superior when they're a stubborn asshole.

        Of course Wauf users - who have a self-inflated and unearned sense of intellectual superiority - project this onto cats and imagine them as noble, high intelligent animals, when the reality is that they're just stubborn assholes.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          what are you arguing, that dogs are smarter than people who don't do well in school because they act more "rationally?"

          The argument isn't if it's better to do well in school or not. It's that doing things out of instinct doesn't prove intelligence, but deciding whether or not to do something often is.

          For example, my cat buried his poop. My dog would dig it up and eat it because he smelled "food" and his instinct wouldn't let him not eat shit. He was literally compelled to eat shit.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >For example, my cat buried his poop. My dog would dig it up and eat it because he smelled "food" and his instinct wouldn't let him not eat shit. He was literally compelled to eat shit.
            have you ever wondered why a dog would even care

            despite having the stomach acid strength of a vulture, agricultural dysgenics have weakened your immune system considerably. this means you can't eat shit. and yet you will eat things that other animals consider toxic waste, like pickled onions. curious.

            the dogs digestive tract has not been subject to dysgenics. therefore, shit is just nutrients someone elses inefficient gut left laying around. is the dog compelled to eat shit? the dog has no reason not to eat shit. an herbivore would see you the same when you eat meat.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              the inability to stop freaking out over animals having different diets really speaks volumes about how intelligent some "humans" really are.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >An intelligent person would realize that doing well in school, despite any of their own personal feelings about it, is worth their time for a plethora of reasons.
          >Let me tell you what you should believe. Let me tell you which kind of life you should LOGICALLY live.
          Moral objectivity does not exist.

          Oh boy doing well in school is so superior because then after working hard for professor leibowitz I can work extra hard for executive johnson and maybe be allowed to retire when my brain and body are beginning to decay too fast for my employer's taste! I am so obligated to want that.

          What are you going to do, starve me, beat me, force me at gunpoint? Am I more intelligent if i submit, or more intelligent if I do my best to take you to the grave with me so the world can be spared your cancerous presence?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Peak birdfag cope

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        But they are
        Ravens and parrots are smarter than dogs, too

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          In terms of computing power, but birds lack true self awareness and soul. It’s like saying an android is smarter than a human. Yes, but it is a machine.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Alex the African grey parrot
            >Pepperberg did not claim that Alex could use "language", instead saying that he used a two-way communications code.[14] Listing Alex's accomplishments in 1999, Pepperberg said he could identify 50 different objects and recognize quantities up to six; that he could distinguish seven colors and five shapes, and understand the concepts of "bigger", "smaller", "same", and "different", and that he was learning "over" and "under".[2] Alex passed increasingly difficult tests measuring whether humans have achieved Piaget's Substage 6 object permanence. Alex showed surprise and anger when confronted with a nonexistent object or one different from what he had been led to believe was hidden during the tests.

            >Alex had a vocabulary of over 100 words,[16] but was exceptional in that he appeared to have understanding of what he said. For example, when Alex was shown an object and asked about its shape, color, or material, he could label it correctly.[14] He could describe a key as a key no matter what its size or color, and could determine how the key was different from others.[7]

            >Looking at a mirror, he said "what color", and learned the word "grey" after being told "grey" six times.[17] This made him the first and only non-human animal to have ever asked a question, let alone an existential one (Apes who have been trained to use sign-language have so far failed to ever ask a single question).[18]

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >automaton gathers information after learning that doing so can get it rewards
              ChatGPT can also ask a question.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >ChatGPT can also ask a question.
                I only see it answer questions, not ask it.

                In terms of computing power, but birds lack true self awareness and soul. It’s like saying an android is smarter than a human. Yes, but it is a machine.

                I'm a catfag and even I think birds are pretty smart.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >birds lack true self awareness and soul
            Some bird species recognize themselves in mirrors, mourn their dead and even hold funeral rites for them, can suffer from anxiety that has to be treated with benzos, can fall into depression when their favorite person dies, can form bonds with pretty much every animal under the sun and that's especially true for ravens, who have been observed babysitting wolf pups, playing with them, teaching them, and eventually hunting with them and retaining playful behavior with the adults as well
            Corvids and parrots in particular are as smart and soulful as it gets

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Robots can do this as well
              >Input error
              >Basic malfunction common to all central nervous systems
              >Standard stimulus deprivation response
              >Standard dopamine response
              But still, they have no souls. Only mammals have any sort of introspection, however impotent and ineffective, because only mammals have any self to reconsider.

              Birds are nothing more than very effective at living.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh it's clear now, you're either baiting or being obtuse on purpose
                Here's your last (You), enioy

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I thought this was going to be some ploy for the bird and his bird gang friends to carjack the driver

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >birdbot 2000's chick guidance routine's trigger is too sensitive
                must be an adaptation to cuckoos, since rejecting the foreign chick usually gets the nest destroyed or the parents attacked

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Be crow
                >Use cars to crack open nuts
                >Notice cars stop whenever a hedgehog is on the road
                >Get hedgehogs out of the fucking road whenever you see them
                >Retards on the internet confuse this for empathy
                Crows are smart, but they don't give a fuck about other animals.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                The car only stopped cause some weird shit was going on
                The amount of times I've seen hedgehogs splattered on the ground suggests that no
                Cars don't really stop for hedgehogs

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Cars don't really stop for hedgehogs
                not if my dad is driving
                based hedgewarden

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Be hedgehog
                >Be fucking retard
                >Walk across road
                >Car stops until you get across then drives on
                >Turn around an walk back again
                >Repeat until car driven by animal hater
                >Be dead

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Birds lack soul
            You've never interacted with a parrot.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              He’s a nagger. He’s unable to comprehend such concepts

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >You've never interacted with a parrot
              They have souls, alright. Souls as black as night.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Most birds are smarter than cats
      Yes.
      >Rats are smarter than cats
      No.

  38. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    jumping spiders have the intelligence of a cat.
    But with a much smaller processor so it takes them a much longer time to solve the same problem than
    a cat

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Goats!

      No cap? I love the little guys. It makes me sad people can't see how cute they are.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Jumping spiders in the genus Portia are astonishingly intelligent, The Queensland population of Portia fimbriata in particular is the smartest and have a better ability to map out an area and pre plan an attack on prey better than a lot of mammals. They can even stalk prey they can’t see after memorising it’s location

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I've always noticed that jumping spiders are remarkably intelligent, friendly towards humans too.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Did you unironically say no cap?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          It is always said ironically, bud.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >jumping spiders have the intelligence of a cat
      Domestic cats are dumb as fuck, particularly when compared with dogs.
      But even so, cats are a fuck of a lot smarter than spiders.
      LOL. LMAO even.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is this a AI generated post or did you enter this thread specifically to reply to that post without reading anything else at all? you don't seem to have any context at all about any other post in the entire thread

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/gtRh3VS.jpg

      Even a lot of people who know jumping spiders are intelligent don't realize wolfies are about as intelligent themselves. They just don't appear like it initially because of their more aloof behavior.

      https://i.imgur.com/9poHbI3.jpg

      Most spiders are actually quite intelligent. Sedentary spiders often nest near lights to catch bugs, and some spider species work together and form colonies to net more prey.

      Don't most spiders have a rather large encephalization quotient? I thought I remembered hearing about that. If their respiratory, digestive and circulatory systems weren't all so primitive/maladaptive for large size then they could easily dominate larger niches(assuming the issue of large arthropod molting is overcome too).

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Especially in small jumping spiders. Their brains spill out and fill parts of their legs.

        If they could be larger they would be terrifying. In reality they are extremely fragile, so that is s further limitation for a larger spider. Spiders are basically water balloons but they aren't stretchy like a balloon. Actually makes them more impressive being so good while being so fragile. Bit like humans.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          humans are by no means fragile

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >call a tranny by it's birthname
            >tranny gets mad and starts shouting
            >laugh
            >tranny goes home and kills itself

            humans ARE fragile, like jumping spiders as

            https://i.imgur.com/TQNOH2y.jpg

            Especially in small jumping spiders. Their brains spill out and fill parts of their legs.

            If they could be larger they would be terrifying. In reality they are extremely fragile, so that is s further limitation for a larger spider. Spiders are basically water balloons but they aren't stretchy like a balloon. Actually makes them more impressive being so good while being so fragile. Bit like humans.

            stated

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >it's
              This is an English language board, anon.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >jumping spiders have the intelligence of a cat.
      >But with a much smaller processor so it takes them a much longer time to solve the same problem than a cat
      I see what you did there.

  39. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Raccoons have intelligence around that of lesser primates

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      neurologically they are just dogs with hands

      they aren’t as smart as monkeys either. or even lemurs.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        A quick google search of “raccoon intelligence” easily proves you’re full of crap

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      If apes or monkeys don't evolve into the next humans, raccoons will be the biggest candidate

      https://i.imgur.com/8a9eNMy.jpg

      which animals are surprisingly intelligent? so no elephants, chimpansee and dolphins.

      pigs, octopi, crows, parrots, a few monkey species that are smarter than gorillas

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Raccoons are probably evolving into the things that evolved into us.

  40. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    cows

  41. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  42. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I guess donkeys? Not in ape tier intelligence but they are used as symbol of low intelligence when they just are stubborn and won't always obey people.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The alleged stubbornness comes from the fact they won't cross water if they can't see the floor of it, because they are well aware they can't swim
      In that regard that makes them smarter than some humans

  43. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Eh. Looks like that's Brazilian Linear Algebra. Much less impressive.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        why?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >TFW an alien species could open some sort of alien science data storage in front of us and we would be as clueless as that toad.

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