The animal kingdom is filled with brainiacs. We find behaviours previously thought to be unique to humans reflected in distantly related species and see animals using their brains like a superpower.
In fact, there’s such a great variety of brilliant minds that it’s very difficult to compare them. Scientists don’t spend their time ranking animals by intelligence and there isn’t an IQ test suitable for every species even if they tried.
That said, we’d like to highlight some of the contenders for the smartest animals that have emerged from scientific research.
Keep in mind that most…
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News Source: https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/smartest-animals/