Top 10 smartest creatures?

Question

i know up to 4, but what about the other 6?

1.humans

2.dolphins

3.primates

4.pigs

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do you know the rest?

Answer 1

5. elephants

Answer 2

Jane Goodall says...

1. Great Apes

2. Whales & Dolphins

3. Elephants

4. Parrots

5. Dogs & Cats

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April Holliday says...

1. apes and monkeys

2. dolphins and some whales

3. dogs

4. cats

5. crows

6. ravens

7. parrots

8. pigs

9. squirrels

10. octopuses

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MSNBC says...

1. Humans

2. Chimps

3. Dolphins

4. Elephants

5. Cephalopods (octopi, squids, etc)

6. Crows

7. Squirrels

8. Dogs

9. Cats

10. Pigs

To see article... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24628983/?pg...

Answer 3

Actually, it depends on the parrot. African Grey Parrots are exceptionally smarts - it's just arguable whether or not it's cognitive. Any list would be arguably subjective anyway since there isn't a universal and acute definition for intellectual prowess (social skills, tool skills, creative skills, logic, memory, etc.).

Also, humans are a member of the primate order. Are you allowing for double mentions?

i'd go:

humans

silverback gorillas

monkeys

elephants

octopuses

dolphins

crows

african grey parrots

sheep

meerkats

Answer 4

One of the problems with such a rigid ranking is that we don't really have a single, good definition for what constitutes intelligence in an animal, let alone a reliable, quantifiable metric for measuring it.

"Intelligence" as we know it, actually consists of several different factors, including memory, cognitive ability, problem solving, communication ability, and social interaction.  Because we humans are high in all of those traits we tend to lump them all together as 'smartness' - but it's quite possible for a critter (such as a cat) to be very high in cognitive ability, but low in social interactivity.  

In such cases, it's hard to determine relative ranks of smartness.  If a critter like an octopus has fantastic problem solving abilities, but doesn't have the same amount of long term memory as a humpback whale, which one is smarter?

Most of the critters others have mentioned would definitely be high up there on most of the traits we consider markers for intelligence.

The whales, particularily the Delphinids (dolphins, porpoise, orca) are probably high in almost all of the intelligence traits, followed closely by the other great apes (chimps, gorilla).

I would score most of the Cercopithecoid primates (macaques, guenons, geladas, babboons, langurs) pretty high on the list, and certainly higher than pigs.

The procyonids, especially raccoons, but also coatis would be high on the list, and certainly above dogs or cats.

Octopus, ravens and parrots are ones that are hard to measure - they score very high in some categories, and quite low in others.  They are all certainly clever animals, but their combined scores may not give them the same "IQ" as the primates.

Answer 5

I don't think you can include # 4 for Pigs as they are not smart creatures.

4 - Fox

5 -  Horses

6 - Elephants

7 -  Dogs

8-  Birds

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