Vlog: Animal Intelligence and Behaviour

What sets humans apart from other animals?

A impromptu vlog on animal intelligence and behaviour.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• animal
• intelligence
• behaviour
• science
• environment
• chimpanzee
• primate
• ape
• monkey
• squid
• raven
• bird
• experiment
• extinct

[nohonor89]

"Only human beings guide their behaviour by a knowledge of what happened before they were born and a preconception of what may happen after they are dead". So, history.

[TheRavenOfPoe]

@nohonor89 I wish humans learned a bit more from history than they tend to ;)

[ForgottenFaces001]

these are all good points in this vid, people in both science and religion make unrational arguments against animals and there ability to think and feel.

i studied science and religion and theology and my teachers would always make straw man arguments against animals being able to think and feel.

there arguments were always weak. i will never see a animal in the same light as a human but i do see them as being living beings with thought and feeling and i respect that.

[TheRavenOfPoe]

@ForgottenFaces001 Well said! :)

[thestarduster]

Elephants have a language and can understand syntax. They are also the only other species that have any known form of a death ritual and a deep sense of grief and altruism. I think elephant intelligence is so underrated, and the intelligence of species, such as dolphins, are overrated.

[TheRavenOfPoe]

Elephants are certainly one animal I'd be interested in reading more about :) Their long lifespan and reported long memory are other factors to look into too.

I think just like with humans, there should be different types of intelligence considered - emotional, logical, problem-solving, linguistic etc

[TheLtShinysides]

DO you listen to CUNT-TRY? I agree there are animals that use tools.....like......CHIMP-PANS­IES who collect nuts and lay them in the path of forest fires to roast them. And there are crows who collect nuts, berries and small animals who drop them on high traffic roads so they are ready to be eaten. DUHHH BALH BLAH BLAH UHHHHH BARF falal merry christmas. Wait? merry christmas? who celebrates the fact that their savior was nailed to a cross?! MERRY CHRIST-MASS? shit man... you guys are fucked up

[natedaug1]

Written language, passes on knowledge from generation to generation. Written language, existed in the past, they just did not have paper, they wrote it on walls and stuff. Awareness of our mortality, Heidegger calls it daesin, is another thing. The search for meaning in the world, through religion or whatever, is another. Also politics, animals aren't political.

[PerthPete1]

Talking to camera, coherently and logically, for close to nine minutes, on a topic like this is most impressive. Well done!

I liked your conclusion.

[sideburnsofthefuture]

Or maybe the difference is just that humans ask themselves what makes them different from other animals -- that and neckties. Other animals are far too intelligent to wear neckties.