5 Animals with human intelligence that rival
When people need some kind of map and compass to find their way home after a long journey, homing pigeon can return from a very long distance (more than 1,100 miles) without any guidance.
Actually, they have some assistance. According to research by the University of Frankfurt, pigeons have iron-containing structures in their beaks, which helps them feel the earth's magnetic field independent of motion and posture, which can determine their geographic position. Research released this year shows the magnetic attraction is present in other birds.
4. Ant
Despite their small size, many varieties of ants in the world who have extraordinary abilities. One of the most impressive is smithii mycocepurus from Amazon, a feminist super-species that have developed the ability to reproduce through cloning to evolve into an all-female species.
According to research from the University of Arizona, it is unclear when those changes occur, but with reproduction without sex, energetic ants avoid the production of men and replace them with double the number of female reproduction produced each generation.
Unlike us humans, ants also learn efficient ways to manage their super traffic. In 2006 research by the University of California Berkeley has determined that the trap-jaw ant (bauri Odontomachus) to close the jaw is at an incredible speed. This process takes place only in 0.13 milliseconds, 2300 times faster than the blink of the eye.
3. Termite
In Zimbabwe, michaelseni Macrotermes termite species have developed the proper technique for a particular mushroom farm that serves as their food.
This fungus can grow only about 87 degrees Fahrenheit, while the temperature outside the nest was 104 degrees Fahrenheit in the daytime and 35 degrees Fahrenheit at night, termites have had a system to maintain constant temperature in their nest by constantly opening and closing the heating and ventilation cooling.
This is an idea that inspired the Loughborough University who has conducted research using the same technique to humans in the building.
2. Chimpanzee
Many already know about the intelligence of chimpanzees, with some people who claim they were geniuses and others say that their intelligence is only equivalent to 3-year-old human child.
But at least there is one area in which chimps are smarter than humans, namely photographic memory. A study by the Institute of Kyoto University Primate Research proves young chimpanzees have an extraordinary memory capability for numerical memory, even better than human adults tested with the same case and follow the same procedure.
1. Dolphins
Recently, the dolphins are stated as being second in the world's most intelligent. A zoologist from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, according to The Times, said that "their neuroanatomy shows psychological continuity between humans and dolphins," and called for review of human interaction with dolphins. Another scientist from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles sebgai even call them "people of non-human."
So yes, dolphins are smarter than chimpanzees with capabilities similar to human communication. Their brains just a little difference with the mass of the human brain, making them as animals with a different culture and personality with the ability to think about the future.
source : http://hermawayne.blogspot.com/2011/02/5-hewan-dengan-kecerdasan-yang.html
