Why are we smart, i mean smarter then other animals or living creatures?
In: Biology
We likely are not. The different between humans and other animals is likely that we don’t ask the right questions in the right way of animals.
Take the mirror test for example. It’s a test where they anesthetize an animal, put paint on it, wake it up, and see if it uses a mirror to study the paint. Humans, orcas, dolphins, magpies, and an elephant have passed this test but most other animals tested have not.
The easy explanation would be that humans are smarter. However, it’s now believed that animals have other non visual ways of identifying themselves and each other like scents or birdsongs. Humans are a visual species so the mirror test makes sense to us. An animal like a mole likely would be seen to fail it simply because it lives in the dirt and doesn’t use its eyes as much to travel their world.
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