Animal Intelligence
Animal Intelligence Still Doesn’t Make Them Human
While many animals are endowed with remarkable and interesting abilities, human beings possess not only the ability to express and understand original abstract thoughts through language, but also the ability to know their Creator. Evolutionary thinking pretends we humans are just animals and not accountable to God.
Does Your Dog Think Like You?
Brain imaging suggests dogs and humans are wired to respond to sounds the same way. Evolutionary researchers are surprised to find neurological similarities between humans and dogs but not between humans and apes.
How Did the Octopus Get So Smart?
The octopus is a very intelligent invertebrate. Evolutionists assert intelligent apes are our near relations, but how do they explain octopus intelligence? God endowed them from the beginning with intelligence to live in the world He created and even to cope with the world He cursed because of man’s sin.
Crow Smarter Than Apes and Dolphins
The crow displays remarkable intelligence. If there were an animal version of the popular trivia program Jeopardy!, it might pit a chimpanzee against a dolphin against a crow. The surprising thing is, the crow might win!
Articles About Animal Intelligence
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Elephants and Their Surprising Math SkillsSept. 6, 2008
Move over (again), chimpanzees: it’s not only you in the animal kingdom that has calculable intelligence.
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Apes Show Signs of Mentally Planning AheadJune 21, 2008 from News to Know
Chimps and orangutans are capable of sophisticated “mental time travel,” reports LiveScience on research at Lund University in Sweden.
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Monkey See, Monkey RememberDec. 8, 2007
Based on test results published in Current Biology, chimpanzees have “an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours.” The tests were devised by Japanese scientists and pitted university students against three pairs of mother-and-child chimps.
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Crows and Their ToolsAug. 25, 2007
BBC News reports on a University of Auckland study that highlights the tool-adapting and tool-using ability of New Caledonian crows.
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Monkey See, Monkey Talk: Ape CommunicationJune 2, 2007
Researchers are astounded by ape communication skills.
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Simian Sign LanguageMay 5, 2007
Simian use of gestures is the latest evidence of evolution—at least, that’s the impression given by a BBC NEWS article describing research into how bonobos and chimpanzees communicate.
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Rats: Thinking About FailingMarch 10, 2007 from News to Know
This week, a new animal joins our showcase of “underestimated animal geniuses”: the humble lab rat.
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Gorillas and Tools?Sept. 30, 2005
The BBC News and other media outlets have been circulating an Associated Press article that states that gorillas in the wild have been observed using tools.
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Magazine ArticleBirdbrains?Sept. 1, 1999, pp. 51–52
David Attenborough's acclaimed television series, The Life of Birds, provided many examples of remarkable features and behaviours in birds. These provide reasons to doubt evolutionary philosophy.
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Magazine ArticleBird-Brain Matches ChimpsDec. 1, 1996, pp. 47–48
It turns out that there is at least one parrot that can rival chimps in creative language use and complexity of reasoning.
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Magazine ArticleTalking MonkeysOct. 1, 1982, pp. 6–8
An eccentric German, named Von Osten, set out to show that animals were as clever as men. He spent two years educating a horse which became known as Clever Hans.
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