The Animal Intelligence Thread

[Roland Deschain]

Great thread. I've seen the apparent intelligence (or problem-solving skills) of crows, rooks, ravens, magpies, and jackdaws too. They can all be tamed quite easily, although they retain a wild element.

Another group of animals with intelligence are the great apes. I watched a programme on the BBC iPlayer a little while ago, and it featured a woman who was studying chimpanzees in the wild. The type she was studying lived mainly in the savannah of Africa. Although apes exhibit tool use to get food, this specific type of chimpanzee uses tools far more frequently, and will stand up on their hind legs to see over the long grasses. It's quite haunting seeing that, as to me it feels like an echo of what happened so long ago in our own past. This is history repeating itself.