Humans not smarter than animals

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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.

Humans not smarter than animals: experts - Indian Express Mobile
 

srkmish

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Rather than all this, Animals simply enjoy life living in the present moment and humans worry their whole lives about job,money,marriage and the whole damn future.

Who is more intelligent now?
 

rijinpk1

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Rather than all this, Animals simply enjoy life living in the present moment and humans worry their whole lives about job,money,marriage and the whole damn future.

Who is more intelligent now?

humans live long too :D
 

bubusam13

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Many Birds and tortoise have build in GPS system. They can detect magnetic field of earth and locate their position. Bats got sonar more precise than the most advanced human made sonar.
Bee can see a differently coloured world.
 

heidi2521

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“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 

Minion

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So true if you look at those street dogs sometimes they fight among them but we human always fight among ourselves so we are even worse than them.

Humans always think about themselves and not anyone.

Even Your school friends they simply broke any relationship(friendship) if they have job and you don't have this is so insane they stop calling you texting you... So animal yeah they are lot better than humans..
 

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“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

So long, so long and thanks for all the fish.
 

Darth Vader

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Only humans can think beyond Earth.

Animals kill each other....infact eat their own offsprings. Humans kill each other but in more sophisticated way because we are more intelligent. So Intelligence has nothing to do with WAR & PEACE. Intelligence is a weapon used for the survival of the human species.

Ultimately we are the only species ever lived that talks **** about our own species :D
 
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Yeah the scientist is saying the same thing Adams said
Greed, anger, lust, fear, hunger still motivates us in day to day existence, at least more than space travel. Our tech and brains havent yet elevated us over animals. It remains to be explored what animals are advanced in without comparing based on what humans have achieved.
 

nav18

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Many Birds and tortoise have build in GPS system. They can detect magnetic field of earth and locate their position. Bats got sonar more precise than the most advanced human made sonar.
Bee can see a differently coloured world.

And we are constantly adapting these kind of things in our technology.
So we have an edge no matter what our intelligence level is. :cool:
 
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But we rely on these so much we cant even tell time without complicated devices

We can no longer survive in jungle, thats devolution
Human babbys are most helpless in wild
We paid heavy price for brains
 

Desmond

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But we rely on these so much we cant even tell time without complicated devices

We can no longer survive in jungle, thats devolution
Human babbys are most helpless in wild
We paid heavy price for brains

There is only one way forward, the Strogg way.
 
Quick question: What is intelligence?

:D

From "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" (1994), an editorial statement by fifty-two researchers:

A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—"catching on," "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do.
 

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From "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" (1994), an editorial statement by fifty-two researchers:

A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—"catching on," "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do.

Exactly what I thought. The tl;dr version of it, that is- the degree to which a being is able to learn and think independently.
 
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