...Fu Manchu in the act. First, the young ape climbed down some air-vent louvers into a dry moat. Then, taking hold of the bottom of the furnace door, he used brute force to pull it back just far enough to slide a wire into the gap, slip a latch and pop the door open. The next day, Stones noticed something shiny sticking out of Fu's mouth. It was the wire lock pick, bent to fit between his lip and gum and stowed there between escapes. Fu Manchu's jailbreaks made headlines in 1968, but his clever tricks didn't make a big impression on the scientists who specialize in looking for signs of higher mental processes in animals. At the time, much of the action in animal intelligence was focused on efforts to teach apes to use human languages. No researcher cared much about ape escape artists. And neither did I. In 1970, I began following studies of animal intelligence, particularly the early reports of chimpanzees who learned how to use human words. The big breakthrough in these experiments came when two psychologists, R. Allen and Beatrice Gardner, realized their chimps were having trouble forming wordlike sounds and decided to teach a young female named Washoe...
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...Animal intelligence Animals are living organisms who have specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli. Humans are also animals but superior than others. However, other animals benefit us in many ways. They are our friends, our fashion accessories, our entertainment, food and our victims. This essay will be focus on the topic of animal intelligent VS animal instinct using relevant examples. The example will further look into the different disagreement presented on this issue. Judging intelligence and other mental skills in animals is usually a difficult task. When examining animals, we should test them in situation that have meaning for their lives, not ours and not just look to see how much they resemble us. We like to know how close animals are to humans- Do they think like us? Do they have the capacity to solve the problems like us? Some of them may have an intelligent. Some researchers say that apes have shown intelligence to us, i.e. their mental processes are similar to ours. This is no wonder because they are our closet biological relatives. In addition, bird species such as parrot and pigeons also have intelligence like some parrots can talk some words. Moreover dolphins and killer whales can perform spectacular feats at marine parks. There are many controversies about the animal intelligence. Some people disagree with intelligence. They observe that animals have instinct rather than intelligence and also they state that we...
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...Can Animals Demonstrate Intelligence, or Do They Just Act on Instinct? Animals' behaviors can be recognized as a complicated process in animals' lives circles which includes a mixture between instinct and intelligence. The way that most of animals use to communicate with each other is a clear sample to know how much complicated they are. Most differences between animals' behaviors may relate to their intelligence such as defense tactics, or act on instinct like nursing. The difference between animals' intelligence and acting on instincts is that they can learn how to do things like hunting which explains intelligence but feeling of hunger is instinct because of some internal or external factors like the hormones process in the body or skin's low temperature. However animals are in between of acting in instinct and demonstrating intelligence. The scientists focused on animal intelligence and demonstrated that they can learn from humans and from each other. For example the apes have learned the sign language by many signs which need time to memorize, afterwards scientists discovered that they can communicate with apes with these signs. This means that apes have an intelligence which is different from other animals to give them special character among them. Most animals act on instincts in some situations or at least in one stage of their lives. For instance, when birds are young they open their mouths for eating from their mother. Also, sea turtles after they hatched they...
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...Animals are intelligent because animals can be trained to do smart things and animals use talents to learn and protect themselves and others. Animals use important skills to do important things, like how animals use snooping and eavesdropping got learn information. Also, how animals learn tricks to do smart things. Animals can and can't be so smart at certain times, but animals can also forget special information. They all in all are very smart, and here are reasons why. “An animal can think in a human way and can express human ideas in human language.” This sentence from “How Smart are Animals?” shows that animals can learn certain important ideas or facts that humans can also learn. The sentence also shows that animals can be very smart, and animals are also as smart as humans. Scientists somehow find it very hard to study animals, because of how smart they are. “Many pitfalls await the scientist trying. To interpret animal’s behavior and make inferences about their intelligence,” this shows that animals are very intelligent....
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...future seems hopeless after reading this book, Fear Nothing actually supports the idea of a positive future for mankind. The animals in the story are all very intelligent. Communication with animals may be easier. The things scientists are able to do and come up with are increasing. The intelligence the animals show in this book provides a positive outlook. The monkeys, although they cause a lot of trouble and chaos, are very intelligent. They take the cameras from Chris, and they nearly kill everyone. If the intelligence could be somehow turned into good, then the future with monkeys would be very bright. Orson, Chris’s dog, also shows a lot of intelligence. He knows and remembers where the jar in the back yard is, and he puts any fears aside to save Chris from the fire. The future for dogs looks very bright as well. This story shows that communication with animals may be easier. Roosevelt Frost can communicate in a way with animals, and understand them better than the average person. He has the ability to read and interpret their thoughts in a new way. Chris, although he doesn’t have that power, can understand Orson very well. The understanding of animals is increasing, and this book provides a bright outlook for humanity. The things the scientists were able to do in this book were fascinating. They created their own animals, and they created a virus. The future of science is looking good. The story actually has a lot of good reasons why the future...
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...Do Animals Have the same Rights as Humans? Today millions of Americans and others around the world have pets. Whether it is a dog or cat, fish or bird, hamster or a mountain lion, owners love their pets. To many they are loved as one of the family and considered to possess the loving and functional qualities of a human. Unfortunately, any way these people like to view their animals, does not change the fact that they are still in fact animals. Animals do not possess the cognitive reasoning humans do. They will respond to a stimulus which can be used through classical conditioning to produce a desired result but the training of something does not give it value. Apart from the capacity of animals, there is something else that separates humans from them. If you believe in a soul or spirit that lasts more than this physical life then that is the main difference between animals and humans. I believe God made Man in His image and was given rule over the earth. This however does not mean that animals are to be treated without respect. Humans have a responsibility, being the dominant species on the earth, to care for the rest of our resources. For example, animals can be used to test psychological tendencies and effects of certain drugs or health issues. It would be much wiser to let the death of a rat help produce a way to save the lives of many humans. However, cruelty and inhumane ways of treating animals, usually for no reason, is a careless treatment of the gifts we are given...
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...his body to shield the infant from the flames.” In the article, “A Change of Heart about Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin, he asserts that “animals feel pain, suffer, and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love.” I believe animals are exceptionally similar to humans. They should be studied more due to the similarity of characteristics that they share with humans. I agree with Rifkin’s article because he uses great insight and valuable information. Since animals are our fellow beings we should live to respect their lives and importance on earth instead of questioning their intelligence and emotions. To start with, it seems to me that animals have the ability to feel any emotion. In the documentary Blackfish (2013), there is a scene where a calf whale named Kohana was taken from her mother Takara. During the course of that scene, Takara was so distressed and upset she had emitted vocalizations no one had ever heard from her. This of...
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...Philosophical Essay Sophocles once said that nothing in the world was more wondrous than man. Well I think the question is debatable so long as "most wonderful in the world" excludes heaven and all those ecclesiastical bodies. I do believe that humans are the most advanced organisms on the planet. We aren't at the very top of the food chain by accident. We are the smartest and really do have dominion over all over things on Earth. But, this is a double edged sword; although we are the rulers and have a partial right to most animals (like eating them for sustenance), we are responsible for their well-being. Whenever a natural disaster happens or something puts animal life at risk, it's our duty to help them. And whenever we do something that has a byproduct to the environment we are fully culpable and are required to do everything we can to right our wrong. I do believe that we are the smartest and most advanced organisms (at least as far as we know) and rule the animal kingdom; but our wonder may be outdone by the natural awe of nature. Like the power of a volcano or the full force of the ocean. To answer what we know as the truth, a classic answer would be God. But on a smaller scale we realize that we actually have proof for very few things. Can we really prove that what we see and feel aren't just figments of our imagination. There is a common theory of what if my red is your green and vice versa. Things like this we will never know or have proof of. Although we don't have conclusive...
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...whether or not the human race will be able to withstand extinction. The parameters of human intelligence can be used to define and determine the possibility of this outcome. Humans are believed to have the title of being the most dominant and intelligent species on the face of the Earth, but there is much competition for that title today and arguments arise within the scientific community. Humans believe that they are separated from all other species based on the concept of intelligence and how they have used intelligence to their advantage to create language, technology and many other things to ultimately establish themselves as a successful species. In order to actually prove that humans rightfully deserve that title, one must delve into the debate of intelligence to clarify the meaning and understanding of intelligence. This will provide evidence to the argument on whether or not the human species will be viable in the long-term. In the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, intelligence is defined as the ability to collect and apply certain knowledge and information from the external environment to different situations1. Although this is a brief and vague definition, certain scientists such as Howard Gardner postulates that intelligence is a complex topic because humans have the ability to use a wide range of different intelligences in life. This is known as the theory of multiple intelligences, for example someone being able to learn a language and not being able to...
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...you’ll spoil my dinner,” is the usual reply to any attempt to tell someone just how that dinner was produced. Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interest, that their clothes come from slaughtered cows, that their entertainment means the suffering and death of millions of animals, and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, still cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad (unless the government of animal welfare societies would have done something about it). But it is not the inability to find out what is going on as much as the desire to not know about facts that may lie heavy on one’s conscience that is responsible for this lack of awareness. After all, the victims of whatever it is goes on in these awful places are not members of one’s own group. It all comes down to pain and suffering, not intelligence, not strength, not social class or civil rights. Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. We are all animals of this planet; we are all creatures. Nonhuman animals experience sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, first and foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us, they seek their own comfort, rather than discomfort. And like us, they express...
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...think you know it, then shout it out! Is it a: A) Pack, B) Pod, C) Pride or D) Gaggle? You've got three seconds -- GO! A group of dolphins is called a pod. It can also be called a school. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout! Animal Intelligence TINKER: Now dolphins don't have to spend time in schools to learn stuff. Alright, I know. It's a little early to break out the puns. But it turns out, these animals might not need to. Some scientists have been studying dolphins' intelligence, and say the creatures might be a lot smarter than any of us think. Randi Kaye explains the porpoise of this research. (BEGIN VIDEO) RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Spend a day with a dolphin, and you're quickly reminded of why they've always captured our imaginations. They are playful, sociable and just incredibly fun to be around. But scientists say there's a lot more to these animals, and they're just beginning to understand the intricate thinking of these so-called, big-brained mammals. Here you go, Nani. Good girl. We came here to the Baltimore Aquarium to see just how intelligent dolphins are. You see them playing with their trainers all the time, but scientists who study them say there's a lot more happening there than just play, that their intelligence actually rivals ours. Here you go. To see up close what has scientists so excited, we climb down into a tiny underwater lab with a window into the aquarium, where scientist Diana Reiss puts a two-way mirror up against the glass. DIANA...
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...Kobie Lofton Mark Pachankis 2nd Period 12/1/15 Chapter Summaries Prologue Diamond wonders why Eurasia presided over other cultures. The question was answered with racial intelligence differences and environmental differences. He also talks about survival of the fittest. He says that intelligence is closely linked to human and cultural survival. All of these questions would be answered by the end of the book. Part One: - From Eden to Cajamarca Chapter 1. Up to the Starting Line Evolution is explained, relating us and our “ancestors” of many centuries ago. Primates such as gorillas are said to be our closest relatives. Africa presides as the homeland for all species. Neanderthals have always been viewed as mindless, mentally deranged creatures. Fifty years ago, The Great Leap Forward was like a big advancement in technology. Hominids also began to spread across New Guinea and Australia. The larger animals that failed to attain protection qualities against other predators during evolution died out and became extinct. Eurasia also occured. It became the more advanced between them and Africa, although Africa started out on top. Chapter 2. A Natural Experiment of History The Maori and Moriori descended from Polynesians,...
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...Society as we know it today has grown from a number of complexed changes and events throughout history. The aim of this essay is to explore and outline a number of key differences from the 1500-1800 time period to today’s modern world, a summary of Blainey’s (2001) work will help give an idea of how life was in that earlier time period and allows us to reference it against what we know as today. Particular differences will be outlined between the two time lines with focus on war, the roles of animals and work structure. These differences will highlight how society has changed from a localized unit to a global unit. Society on a global scale was mostly Agrarian in structure whilst some nomadic style hunter gathers or pastorals groups (Blainey (2001, p.410) still existed in the early 1500’s-1800’s. Life revolved around food, the production of food was what made up day to day life, the average house hold didn’t have enough land to produce what was needed and many people worked at neighbouring farms and meals themselves were used as partial payment. Food was almost the be all and end all it determined wealth, stature and even if and when young single women could marry, Blainey (2001, p.412) explains that if a harvest was plentiful the woman may marry however if the harvest was lean the wedding would be postponed. Work on the farm was predomitdly carried out by the woman and elder children, duties such as fetching fire wood, collecting water from the well, spinning yarn, cooking...
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...The Cognitive Intelligence Of Bottlenose Dolphins Bottlenose dolphins are considered as one of the most intelligent animals on earth, even compared to humans. Many researchers have taken an interest in dolphins; studying their behaviour for years as to understand the complexity of their cognitive developments. Scientists have been conducting experimental research on a dolphins` cognitive reception, particularly the “adaptable, [and] highly sociable,” (Marino R910) bottlenose dolphins. Through extensive studies, researchers have determined that the bottlenose dolphins are one of the most intelligent due to the fact that they have a well-developed sense of emotional responses, which is an attribute of high cognitive recognition (Marino...
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...Highly regarded pig , Old Major, in his influential speech in Animal Farm, professes that humans are starving and overworking the animals on the farm. Major’s purpose is to encourage the animals to rebel against the humans in order to live a fulfilling life. Major adopts an engaging tone in order to captivate the animals to overthrow the humans and take over the farm. He reveals this notion by using pathos to appeal to the animal’s emotions, having an urgent tone, and by the use of anaphora and asyndeton. Major commences his speech by addressing that humans are the cause of all the animals grief. Major states, “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever” (7). This appeals to the farm animals because they now have a figure to blame their suffering on. The use of pathos provokes a call to...
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