Of all animals, only dogs and elephants understands human gestures

There they were smarter shimpanze



Because we are people, we understand that when someone uses his fingers to point at something, you should pay attention to it. However, if you try to pull this off with the animals, they stare at you uncomprehending eyes and continue to beg for food. However, it is interesting that dogs and elephants - two species that understand our strange finger movements.

One professor was given the opportunity to experiment with 11 elephants. She picked up the buckets and indicates which of them are the fruit. Then the elephants were given the opportunity, or go straight to the specified bucket or search for your own fruit. They chose the correct bucket 67, 5%. In contrast, children who instinctively learn to understand these gestures at a very early age, has successfully passed such a test in 73% of cases.

Dogs bred for them to understand human gestures and imitated them (for hunting). In fact, the dogs on the results of this test in most cases won chimpanzees closest relatives of people. In the end, a chimpanzee shot down a peg by the level of intelligence!

via factroom.ru