Comments on: The Intelligence Of Animals

Studies, Behavior Prove There Is More Going On In Animals' Minds Than We Thought Possible

[rational_1]

I have yet to see even the so called ''''inteligent'''' animals show the capacity to say understand that it is the earth that is going around the sun, not vice versa.
Posted by rn11111 at 07:06 PM : Oct 19, 2008

And I have yet to see a communal species like ants or bees organize into as inept a ruling class as we''ve managed to achieve with our current President and Congress! I think we''ve achieved the pinnacle of stupidity - we rule again!

[txgrouch2007]

Humans are smarter than animals.

We wreck their habitat. But if they start messing with our habitat, we call the exterminator.

Well, OK, we''re MEANER than animals, anyway...

[txgrouch2007]

Animals are smarter than humans.

Animals don''t WRECK THE HOME LENDING SYSTEM by trying to let EVERYBODY buy a house.

Barney Frank and the Democrats tried so hard to give everyone "affordable housing" that now the banks are failing and NOBODY can buy a house.

The result of "affordable housing" is TENT CITIES. Well, that''s as affordable as it gets. BARNEY FRANK GOT HIS WISH.

[babooph]

I remember the BS-"man is the only animal that kills ,other than for food",& all the documentaries showing prey always escaping-I was used to the propaganda system though--so......

[rn11111]

What distinguishes us from animals is the capacity for abstract thought. With abstract thought we have the ability to control our surroundings in a way that animals do not, by abstract understanding of how nature works and manipulating it.

I have yet to see even the so called ''inteligent'' animals show the capacity to say understand that it is the earth that is going around the sun, not vice versa.

[toolmangler-2009]

Herd mentality? Intelligence in primates? Does "ACORN" know about this? How about the Democrats?
Posted by request1 at 10:28 AM : Oct 19, 2008


Too late!!!! McCain and the GOP already signed them up.

[kenhamlett]

"So many humans are getting dumber"- TallyMan2008
Words of wisdom and prophesy.

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Anyone who cares to observe already knows that animals have intelligence and self awareness. However it is different than humans so is not appreciated.
The idea that animals are inferior has been a concerted effort in modern times because researchers and others do not care to deal with the ethics of the death and torture of animals. It has even been advanced that people are inferior and outside of normal dignity and compassion just because they are different. Reality is often ignored and ethics abandoned in the name of expedience. Humans are getting dumber indeed.

[erasmus81]

"If humans were as smart, we could understand animals."


Posted by jMcGilvray at 03:16 PM : Oct 19, 2008

Well, I can understand them perfectly.

[tallyman2008]

Naw, animals are same as always

Only reason they seem smarter

So many humans are getting dumber

[erasmus81]

I''''m glad to see that studies are finally showing that some animals have more intelligence than some of the people who post in these forums.

Seriously though, this is nothing new. What''''s new is that it''''s coming to the mainstream. Not fast enough though. Human beings cause so much damage and distress to other creatures. We''''re the only species that disrupts and kills countless millions of other creatures and ruins their lives and habitats. And we often don''''t even notice or pay attention. Perhaps the only thing that really separates us from the other animals is our arrogance and lack of regard for other living things.

Posted by brucestevens at 12:05 PM : Oct 19, 2008


I agree with everything you have said.


"It turns out that elephants have an advanced sense of self, which means (in part) that they''re smart enough to be capable of really caring about others. The only other creatures thought to have this ability include apes ... and human beings."

I wonder if the elephants can be as UNCARING and SELFISH, as human beings. I doubt it.

[nothappyatall]

Might as well legalize marriage to them. There are plenty of lonely sheep and sheeple who will be willing to do anything for them.

Posted by u-r-right"

Might as well marry my dogs since we have a close intimate relationship, but marriage is meaningless to animals and come to think of it it''s a stupid concept put forth by religious reich church to control procreation, money, property and tax.

The CHURCH is the one who caused the separation and used the buybull to justify wholesale slaughter of animals for our use- a species of bird made extinct because we killed so many for their colored feathers to use in women''s HATS, read the history in the book "The beast within: animals in the middle ages"

The CHURCH dictated everything people did, including eating and mating were to be done a certain way- that was DIFFERENT from animals. We share 96% the same DNA with mammals, we are basically the same.
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[dbstevens]

I''m glad to see that studies are finally showing that some animals have more intelligence than some of the people who post in these forums.

Seriously though, this is nothing new. What''s new is that it''s coming to the mainstream. Not fast enough though. Human beings cause so much damage and distress to other creatures. We''re the only species that disrupts and kills countless millions of other creatures and ruins their lives and habitats. And we often don''t even notice or pay attention. Perhaps the only thing that really separates us from the other animals is our arrogance and lack of regard for other living things.

[rowsky9]

good post. What this article neglects to point out is that the human ego is the cause of all of this needless suffering we inflict on innocent animals, an ego which is almost non-existent in animals.

[willow0313]

I have always believed that animals have a superior sense of intelligence....They don't destroy everything around them like humans do.....They may not be able to solve mathamatical problems, but they are superior in knowing what is best for their species, something that humans are lacking in....

[u-r-right]

Might as well legalize marriage to them. There are plenty of lonely sheep and sheeple who will be willing to do anything for them.

[coonana]

Hey u-r-right,
Do you have a dog or cat or have you ever had one? If so, you are probably more like the animal lovers you make fun of. I'll assume you are not the moron your comment would indicate you are. Coonana

[request1]

Herd mentality? Intelligence in primates? Does "ACORN" know about this? How about the Democrats?