Are humans the only smart mammals

Story at-a-glance - Some of the most intelligent animals on earth are species you might never guess Dolphins and dogs have long been recognized for their smarts, but pigeons and pigs, not so much… By Dr.

December 4,University of Adelaide A yellow labrador retriver dog with pink nose. This gained momentum with the development of organised religion, which viewed human beings as the top species in creation. Even Aristotle, probably the most influential of all thinkers, argued that humans were superior to other animals due to our exclusive ability to reason," Dr Saniotis says.

While animal rights began to rise in prominence during the 19th century, the drive of the Industrial Revolution forestalled any gains made in the awareness of other animals.

Professor Maciej Henneberg, a professor of anthropological and comparative anatomy from the School of Medical Sciences, says animals often possess different abilities that are misunderstood by humans.

When a foreigner tries to communicate with us using an imperfect, broken, version of our language, our impression is that they are not very intelligent. But the reality is quite different," Professor Henneberg says. These include social and kinaesthetic intelligence.

Some mammals, like gibbons, can produce a large number of varied sounds — over 20 different sounds with clearly different meanings that allow these arboreal primates to communicate across tropical forest canopy.

The fact that they do not build houses is irrelevant to the gibbons. Humans, with their limited sense of smell, can't even gauge the complexity of messages contained in olfactory markings, which may be as rich in information as the visual world," he says.

Professor Henneberg says domestic pets also give us close insight into mental abilities of mammals and birds. The animal world is much more complex than we give it credit for," he says.Humans are the only ape in which the female is fertile year round, Like all mammals, humans are a diploid eukaryotic species.

Each somatic cell has two sets of 23 chromosomes, each set received from one parent; gametes have only one set of chromosomes, which is a mixture of the two parental sets.

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All animals have is instinct.