Who do you think is smarter: Animals or Humans?

Question

more speciffically :

Animals Vs Non-Human Animals

(apologies)

Answer 1

Hmm lets see this is a hard one...OBVIOUSLY HUMANS!!!!...You give a cow or a dog a piece of paper with the simplest equation on it, they will chew it up for you...even monkeys who are very close primates to us arent as smart,monkeys dont even know how to wipe theyre ****, and by smart im sure you meant intelligent also...btw I hope the question you asked was a joke.

Answer 2

I think humans are more "advanced" but animals are more compassionate and forgiving.

Answer 3

animals they kno everything !! theyre watching u right now!!

Answer 4

humans are animals

Answer 5

Well if animals are smarter they be surfing the net....!!

And you be getting the answer from them right now...!!!

Answer 6

Humans, of course, as they are made in God's image, it says so in Genesis.

Answer 7

Animals. can we turn into coccons and have wings? can we run as fast as cars?can we know what to do right when we are born?(Instinct) they are smarter

Answer 8

well, it depends on how you look at it, humans because we built cars, building, i pods and stuff like that=) . but y would animals need that stuff and how would they use it? so animals just stick to being smarter at life skills and stuff like that so i  would say TIE!

Answer 9

Of course humans! Thats the right answer. If animals are smarter, then why aren't they solving mathematical or scientific problems? And if they are smarter, then they would be going to the office right now.

Answer 10

Our colossal human arrogance won't let us even seriously consider evidence that we might not be the smartest creatures on the planet, even when that evidence is overwhelming.

We now know from DNA evidence that all of the surving cetaceans, (whales, dolphins and porpoises) had a common ancestor about 30 million years ago that had a brain about the size and complexity of ours.  That means that we have more than seventy different examples of brains on this planet (one for each cetacean species) that are literally 30 million years more highly evolved than ours!

The most primitive brain in the Cetacean order belongs to a creature that is a living fossil in its own right because it evolved 20 million years ago: the Pacific gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus).  Interestingly enough, gray whale brains and human brains have almost exactly the same neuronal densities, the same number of nerve cells (neurons) per cubic millimeter.  But gray whale brains are four times bigger than ours, and infinitely more highly differentiated.  A gray whale brain, positioned as if the animal was standing on its tail, looks like nothing so much as a human brain on massive steroids.  And that's the extreme low end of the order.

At the high end is Orcinas orca, the killer whale.  Human brains all have three higher cortexes of three layers each covering their brains, and so do all of the cetaceans except O. orca.  Orcas have three complete complexes too, but covering about 3/4 of their brains is the first layer of a fourth higher cortex.  We dont know exactly what that layer is or does, but we do know that it's an "association cortex," it's a thinking machine.  

Humans are capable of multi-tasking, to an extent, but like most computers, we have serial processors, and even when it looks like we're doing several things at once, it only looks that way because we change back and forth so quickly.  We can't carry on two different conversations at once, for example.  (Actually, the evidence is growing that we can't even carry on a conversation and drive properly.)

Killer whales are now known to be able to carry on from five to eight conversions simultaneously using three different voice boxes at the same time, each on a different conversation.  This certainly would seen to indicate "multiple-point consciousness," which would mean they were using multiple parallel processing, the next big evolutionary step above serial processing, and a logical function of the next cortex in humans.  This is huge!  This is the difference between your laptop and a supercomputer.

The observable differences between killer whale brains and gray whale brains are similar to those between humans and apes, but the observable differences between orca and human brains are more like the differences between human and dog brains.  

Humans only discovered and started using binary code to communicate less than a hundred years ago, whereas the cetaceans have probably been using it for that purpose for tens of millions of years.  Their communication has little to do with the sounds they make, the communication is riding on the sound waves themselves.  Some of those waves have sharp peaks and the others are chopped off flat, the 1s ans 0s of binary code. It's the seemingly random pattern of those two wave forms that gives all cetacean noises other than intestinal rumblings that odd "tinny" quality.

Now, who do you think is smarter?

Now let's do a little figuring.  The science of astronomy has come out of the dark ages during the last 50 years, and we now know that most of the stars around us have families of planets around them or proto-planetary disks from which they may form, and the odds that we are alone in the universe have shrunk with each new discovery, to the point that it is mathmatically impossible for us to be alone here.  

Now let me ask you a question: how could the cetaceans possibly NOT be part of the galactic family of advanced civilizations?

Answer 11

Humans are smarter, Animals are wiser...

Answer 12

ive seen animals much smarter than about 70% of population of U.S....  for the remaining ~30%, humans are smarter

Answer 13

both are the same they both have different ways of being smart!

Answer 14

animals

Answer 15

An amusing study was done ten or fifteen years ago judging the adaptability of mice and humans.

They spent several weeks putting the same mice in the same maze with a slice of cheese in the same spot. Once the mice learned the maze and began going straight to the cheese, they moved the cheese to a different part of the maze. The next time the mice were put in the maze, they went to the spot they assumed the cheese to be. Discovering no cheese, they began looking elsewhere.

The same study was then done with humans and money. However, once the money had been moved to a different spot, most of the people kept looking in the same spot, under rocks, up above the walls, etc. Never thinking to explore the maze further.

To actually answer the question, obviously humans are animals so the question is illogical at best, but getting to the meat of what you meant to ask. You must first define intelligence before approaching an answer.

Intelligence is usually considered to be problem solving skills. A definition decided by humans, a species whose very specific and rather limiting evolutionary niche happens to be just that.

However, if you consider that squirrels have the extraordinary and (to my limited knowledge) as yet unexplained ability to locate an unmarked food cache under four feet of snow buried six months earlier before the seasonal snow falls, then I'd say they've got us beat in more ways than one.

Humans haven't been around very long, and if we keep going at our current rate, we won't last much longer in the big picture. We have cornered ourselves into such an incredibly tight evolutionary niche that while we believe ourselves to be masters of the universe and we do have some very impressive technological capabilities, we will end up polluting and populating ourselves out of a habitat, and thus bring about our own extinction along with that of a considerable number of other species.

So exactly how intelligent you consider our species to be seems to depend entirely on what you consider intelligence. Personally, I'd say we've still got some learning to do.

Answer 16

humans. you dont see animals building societies with complex social structures, do you?

Answer 17

Definately humans...God gave us that!

Answer 18

Since humans are animals, it would seem to be a tie.

However, if you meant humans vs. non-human animals, it clearly goes in favor of humans.  No other animal on Earth is capable of modifying DNA at will.

Answer 19

Tree Frogs!!  They're evil

Answer 20

isn't the obvious answer humans? if animals were smarter then they would be the ones "ruling the planet" were the ones who can build huge buildings and things like that.  animals can do things that we cant, and there are a lot of things that there better at....

but still, humans.

Answer 21

Humans are the smartest members of the Animal Kingdom.

Answer 22

Humans are animals, and that is something society is forgetting these days. It was also proven that pigs are actually smarter then humans. Also, considering that we are going to wipe out our own race from Global Warming, we are not that smart at all.

Answer 23

ok just incase you didn't know we are animals, we are mammals. and we are obviously the smartest ones, ok a monkey can do karate, dolphins can do cool tricks but that doesn't compare to what we've done. made cars, computer just look at how we have changed the world. not for the best il ad but we have changed it, can dolphins say that?

Answer 24

I think Animals because they can survive in nature by them selfs....No need of other materials...and they can self defense and they are more understandable.....LOL

Go chimps !!! ....LOL