10 smartest animals on the planet Bashny.Net

man, perhaps the king of nature, but that's what we tell you - animals is not so easy! These little and big brothers our smaller sometimes differ downright incredible wit and ingenuity in solving problems. < Website publishes a compilation of short facts dedicated to animals intelligence.

< 1. Wolves better trained dogs. At least, so says the experiment described in the article in the scientific journal PLOS One. Fourteen-month-old cubs 6 and the same puppy dog ​​watching the trained dog, opening the box and had to repeat the trick. The cubs have coped all, and of the dogs - only ten

2.. Zebra finch can pretend to be healthy, even if in fact they are seriously sick - all in order to attract a sexual partner. We are not the only species able to deceive their friends.

< 3. Songbirds of passerine not have a large memory capacity, but constantly coming up with new songs. The study showed that male songbirds quickly forget irrelevant information using memory resources for learning the new tunes.

< 4. Lemurs perfectly analyze human behavior. For the experiment, a few people seated for a meal, put on their blindfolds, others were without them. Lemurs instantly understood what people can see the food, and what does not, and began to steal food from sitting in bandages.

< 5. Rats have a highly developed working memory - the ability to "keep in mind" pieces of information for short-term mental activity. This allows them, for example, deftly avoiding the traps, placed at the same locations.

< 6. Even such primitive creatures like fruit flies can be trained and make decisions. For example, we investigated the trained group of fruit flies stay away from a certain smell. Drosophila also have a spatial memory, remembering the location of objects and predicting their occurrence.

< 7. Elephants have established themselves as one of the smartest mammals on the planet, but, in addition, they are not alien to compassion. It was found that if one group of elephants under stress of some kind, the other elephants come up to him and stroked his trunks to calm.

< 8. Dogs is not in vain are called man's best friend. We are so tied to their own, what they think about the hosts, even when those are not around. Of the four kinds of smells - an acquaintance, a stranger, familiar and unfamiliar dogs dogs, the most effective response in their brain is the first option

9.. Monkeys can be extremely stubborn with all your mind. Group of monkeys offered food for the decision of three different types of problems. Animals used for the third type of problem the same tactics that worked for the first two, but needed to think more. The monkeys continued to persist even after hundreds of similar attempts.

< 10. Chimpanzee are prone to a kind of fashion as part of their flocks. When influential monkey in one of the groups start to insert themselves into the ears of grass, other chimpanzees began to repeat after her. Fashion preserved for a long time - even after the death of its inventor



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