Can you name the Top 10 Smartest Animals according to Animal Planet? by alyr57

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Top 10 Smartest Animals Quiz

by alyr57

Created Sep 29, 2009 in Science
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	wilzo:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 19:53 GMT		40 points
	No human?

	beatrixkiddo:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 20:11 GMT		16 points
	pigeons at number 8 ......? i've never met a clever pigeone in my life.

	tallsaul:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT		13 points
	I agree about human... not complete.

	alyr57:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 22:39 GMT		5 points
	Well take it up with Animal Planet, not me.

	HarryNJ:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 15:43 GMT		2 points
	It would seem that dogs and cats belong somewhere around 7th or 8th.

	johnlk:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 17:26 GMT		16 points
	weird that gorilla is not on there.

	shawnkay:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 05:54 GMT		16 points
	I think it would be best to simply re-title this quiz "Top Ten Smartest Animals according to Animal Planet. Clearly there's an immense amount of subjectivity here, and Animal Planet doesn't even come close to quantifying their choices. Rat is smarter than a gorilla? Squirrel is smarter than an african grey parrot or a raven? (etc)

	alyr57:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 13:56 GMT		5 points
	Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll change it.

	Loona:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 03:22 GMT		5 points
	Human thing shocked me. But pigeon and rat is very believable. These are very smart creatures. You don't need to be a primate to show intelligence; their intelligence is very niche-specific..something outside of what most people would define as smart.

	eurythmech:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 20:35 GMT		8 points
	I was surprised to get a point for squirrel, and also at seeing the bonobo lumped together with the chimp (one would assume).

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	tscheno2:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 00:21 GMT		26 points
	If humans aren't animals, what are we? Plants? Fungi perhaps? Maybe protozoa?

	FlummoxedLummox:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 07:54 GMT		11 points
	Lack of bonobo is ridiculous.

	Lthayer3:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 01:08 GMT		10 points
	Odd that typing 'ape' gives Orangutan, but not Chimpanzee. Chimps are apes too.

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	Kazbar:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 23:14 GMT		10 points
	This list was originally compiled on Animal Planet's "The Most Extreme" show, which always omits humans because, well (at least in this case), we all KNOW that we're smarter than any other animal. Half of the lists they compile would have humans on it, and that doesn't make for good television.

	orbit:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 19:06 GMT		6 points
	Yeah, maybe adding "other than humans" to the title would help. Or at least make it a bonus answer. This list is clearly for fun as there's no scientific ranking of animal intelligence that I know of.

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	bigal4:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 03:21 GMT		7 points
	bonus answer velociraptor??

	Chocolatl:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 17:22 GMT		2 points
	How do you measure the intelligence of an octopus?

	alyr57:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 01:57 GMT		4 points
	Well it has 8 legs so it must be smart.

	Osprey39:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 07:22 GMT		10 points
	@Chocolatl: I'm not sure, but octopuses (octopi?) have been observed performing complex tasks like unscrewing the lid of a jar to reach the food inside.

	thisisaname:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 01:44 GMT		18 points
	Humans are only the third smartest animal, of course, behind mice and dolphins.

	SlovakOne:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 12:01 GMT		5 points
	Well, I know humans that are more like rats.

	tfbuckeyes:	Nov 14th, 2009 at 17:09 GMT		4 points
	so i guess owls arent so wise after all

	Ardens:	Mar 12th, 2010 at 21:18 GMT		2 points
	Fail! Humans are animals.

	tdfleischer:	Mar 13th, 2010 at 17:09 GMT		-1 points
	insert the word 'wild' into the quiz title. dogs and cats are smarter than a few of these

	imclala:	Mar 26th, 2010 at 19:05 GMT		4 points
	Spend some time with my cats and tell me that. Dogs and cats are intelligent in ways that we recognize, but objectively and scientifically, they are not as intelligent as some of these other animals.

	budleno:	Mar 29th, 2010 at 23:39 GMT		5 points
	I remember watching a documentary called "Bird Brain of Britain" it was a documentary testing the ability of birds to learn by completing more and more complex tasks to receive food. Certainly showed some birds are smarter than we give them credit for.

	sevorak:	Apr 2nd, 2010 at 20:50 GMT		-3 points
	Raven should be accepted for crow. They are interchangeable words.

	Bulletchewer6:	Apr 7th, 2010 at 00:02 GMT		-2 points
	Humans' closest relatives are chimpanzees (we share 99% of our DNA with them), but I'm yet to meet a chimpanzee who can say "Polly wants a cracker"! Parrots- underrated, overlooked, misunderstood.

	Converge:	Apr 15th, 2010 at 01:11 GMT		-4 points
	Do octopi even have what we'd consider a brain? Way to go, Animal Planet.

	midlifecrisis:	Apr 21st, 2010 at 02:15 GMT		0 points
	No fox? ;)

	TeganX7:	Jul 14th, 2010 at 15:31 GMT		0 points
	As I recall, pigeons were trained to be placed into missiles to guide them to targets by pecking on the silhouette of an enemy ship. That's fairly intelligent, but the fact that they willingly allowed themselves to be placed into a missile with an explosive warhead makes me question just how intelligent. Octopi are incredibly intelligent doing everything from figuring out how to pick simple mechanical locks to picking the winner of the World Cup (maybe that last one's more random chance than intelligence).

	psudave:	Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:02 GMT		-1 points
	The african grey parrot was listed as the smartest animal by the animal planets most extreme series.

	Kiss:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 19:37 GMT		1 point
	Should do some fun bonus answers... that'd make it more enjoyable.

	Dfearnley47:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 17:01 GMT		1 point
	crow is higher

	kryan82:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 00:20 GMT		4 points
	What about centaurs? Every Harry Potter fan knows that their intelligence far outstrips that of humans. ;-)

	PurppuraSuihku:	Dec 22nd, 2010 at 11:30 GMT		2 points
	Well yeah a lot of issues with this quiz... bonobos, parrots, ravens, gorillas, humans...

	Treverbeast454:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 00:26 GMT		2 points
	humans should at least be a bonus answer