The Smartest Animals in the World

1. CHIMPANZEE

These animals are very popular in Hollywood as "Animals Film 'best-selling besides dogs.Chimpanzees are animals smartest primate in the world, and scientists also recognize that they are the most intelligent animals in the world today.

These primates from tropical forests in Africa. They live in groups, socializing with others, even association. They are creatures that resemble early human showed activity. They can make spears for hunting rabbits in the hole, picking fruit with a pole, crack nuts with rocks, even fish with a tree branch!

A professor of Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University named Tetsuro Matsuzawa, dedicating his life to researching chimpanzee. He said that chimpanzees can even beat the Japanese undergraduate mathematics at the memory test numbers 1-9. Of course, the memory test is made as complicated as possible and at high speed.

2. BORDER COLLIE DOGS

Border Collie is a breed of dog originating from Scotland, and touted as the world's smartest dog. In the place of origin, these dogs are used for herding cattle man.

Border Collie can solve complex problems that he encountered while herding cattle. Herding cattle is a difficult thing for people who are not used, but the Border Collie can learn it quickly.

These dogs are also often used to aid in tracking and SAR of natural disasters that are difficult to track with technology. Smell and incredible intuition that caused this dog to be useful for humans.

3. OCTOPUS

All types of squid or bertentakel creature known to have the ability to solve problems, but for the octopus was incredible! Deep sea creature has a big enough brain to nerve sensors that allow them to think quickly.

From various experiments given scientists, for example, put the crab in a jar, the octopus can open and catch it. Sometimes they can even be found in the ship's hull were catching crabs.

Biggest octopus ever found weighed 273 kilograms and with a range of body reaches 30 meters!

4. GRAY COCKATOO AFRICA

The first time you watch a video about the Einstein gray parrots intelligent on Animal Planet, I was very impressed. Imagine, if we know the usual parrots can only mimic human speech, parrots this one can even answer these questions in the proposed. Of course, it takes practice first.

The scientists who examined them said that this is the type of cockatoo parrots smartest in the world, or maybe it's normal if called most intelligent birds in the world.

Cockatoos can recognize dozens of questions that contain the words from the simple to the most complex, recognizing dozens of colors, various shapes and numerical values ​​are presented. Scientists believe birds can be developed to study the more remarkable.

5. ELEPHANT

Of all types of elephants are there in the whole world, both pygmy elephant and a giant elephant, believed to have the same intelligence. Elephants have a variety of sharp senses, especially hearing and memory. Elephant brain is the largest brain of all land creatures living today.

Elephant memory skills can be evidenced from how they remember the route and the distance they travel, given the members of the colony, and their ability to distinguish calls to each other elephants. Elephants can even call other elephants in the distance of many miles feet with a shout, the sound of a trumpet, or a call through the soil.

Elephants also have a psychology that is almost similar to humans, they can laugh, cry, and get angry. No wonder many elephant emblem of wisdom by some old cultures of the world. At the School of Elephants in Lampung, elephants are trained to recognize various forms, do attractions, and even painted elephants!

6. RHESUS MONKEY

Sometimes we think of all kinds of monkeys are equally smart, it's because they are easy to train. But scientists have found another. Rhesus monkeys are monkeys are considered the most intelligent in the world. Monkey habitat is widely available in mainland Asia, particularly in Afghanistan, China, and India.

Rhesus monkeys are widely used by scientists to assist research. Among the various studies using monkeys is one of them is the mission of sending monkeys into space. Oh yes, we must be able to distinguish between monkeys and other primates, because they are all different.

In addition to having a high level of intelligence, Rhesus monkeys also have a psychological tendency that is similar to humans, they can even commit suicide if desperate!

7. BOTTLE NOSE DOLPHINS

Family of marine mammals are known to have extraordinary intelligence. They are easily tamed and trained by humans. Among the many marine mammals are smart, bottle nose dolphins are the most intelligent.

Dolphin brains are larger type than the other dolphin brains. In addition they have a cerebral koteks 40% larger than humans. The cerebral cortex is the brain region that serves for social communication, abstract information processing, problem solving, and intelligence in accepting new things.

Dolphins use sonar sounds called echolocation to detect prey, warning of danger, and seek colonies. These capabilities are used by the U.S. Navy (U.S. Navy) in a variety of research missions and sea mine clearance.

Oh yes, when I was finding out about the dolphins, I found a story about a bottle nose dolphin that saved a small whale in New Zealand waters. It's an animal that likes to help. 

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