10 Worlds Smartest Animals

By Author: Phillip Chase
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The criteria for determining smartest animals can be different and the results could differ accordingly. Ability to communicate, problem solving skills and other such factors are taken into account while determining the intelligence levels in animals. Let's have a look at the top 10 smartest animals in the world.Many language experiments have shown that chimps are very creative and can learn to use symbols and also to teach them to others. They also understand aspects of human language, including concepts of number and numerical sequence as well as some relational syntax. Chimpanzees live in a hierarchy in which more than one individual can be dominant enough to dominate other members of lower rank. The Alpha male is the highest-ranking male who controls the group and lower-ranking Chimpanzees will show respect by making submissive gestures in body language or reaching out their hand while grunting. Chimpanzees make tools and use them to acquire foods, for social displays. These primates have sophisticated hunting strategies requiring cooperation and ...
... allowing the animals to achieve influence and rank by sharing meat. They are very capable of empathy, self-awareness and altruism. Above all, chimpanzees have a better memory than any other creature, including humans. They are analytical and good in solving problem, clearly capable of insight and complex "cognitive performance" in both the captivity and in wild, and particularly adept at analyzing relative relationships. After all these traits, chimpanzees deserve to top our list as the smartest animal in the world. Dolphins are very social animals, living in pods of up to a dozen individuals that communicate using a variety of whistles, clicks and other vocalizations. Interesting and impressive thing about Dolphins is that they can sleep with only one brain hemisphere in slow-wave sleep at a time, which means they have the ability to keep half of their brain awake and the other half asleep, maintaining enough consciousness to breathe and to watch for possible predators and other threats. Most Dolphins have acute eyesight and they can hear frequencies ten times or more above the upper limit of adult human hearing. Also, their teeth function as an antenna to receive incoming sound and to pinpoint the exact location of an object. Dolphins use tools in their environment for a variety of purposes, such as using bait to catch bigger fish. That's why they are excellent at hunting. They also know how to solve puzzles, work together, think abstractly, follow instructions, learn from previous experiences, and the female dolphins will pass