Professor Maciej Henneberg said animals often possess different abilities that are misunderstood by humans. "The fact that they may not understand us, while we do not understand them, does not mean our 'intelligences' are at different levels, they are just of different kinds," Henneberg said.
"Animals offer different kinds of intelligences which have been under-rated due to humans' fixation on language and technology. These include social and kin aesthetic intelligence.
"Some mammals, like gibbons, can produce a large number of varied sounds - over 20 different sounds with clearly different meanings that allow these arboreal primates to communicate across tropical forest canopy. The fact that they do not build houses is irrelevant to the gibbons," Henneberg said.
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