Animals (proportionally) are smarter than us when they have to approach their prey without being recognized.
Birds bury food reserves in hundreds of different places and remember them with absolute precision even after a year.
Fish that show altruistic behaviour, looking after the offspring of fish of other species while their parents are absent.
Ants use particular movements to communicate with other ants which task to perform.
Although these behaviours do not happen very often, they have led ethologists to ask themselves: "Do animals really possess what we call intelligence? Can animals lower than the man on the evolutionary scale have what we call mind?".
The heron using bait to fish seems to be able to make predictions, "study" a project and "understand" what the result will be.
According to some researchers, these apparently cognitive abilities may exist in many animal species.
In Africa, guenons use different alert signals depending on the type of predator that they spot and emit alarm sounds specific to eagles, poisonous snakes and leopards.
The companions who hear the sound respond with a "calibrated" defensive behaviour, depending on the animal, climb a tree to avoid snakes, or hide in the bush to escape eagles.
Experiments on parrots contradict common belief in the purely Imitative character of the language of these animals.
There are some mysterious aspects of “Animal Mentality”, from the social traditions of the community to how to teach chickens to dance. So the hen is an intelligent animal.
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