Animal Intelligence

Rakhi greetings to all of you .Let's start my new blog. In the new issue of the''Time'' magazine the cover article is ''What Animals Think''.There are some interesting facts about some animals.The human brain weighs up to 1,400g(3lb),the dolphin's  brain up to 1,700g(3.75lb) and the Killer whale's brain weighs up to 5,600g(12.3lb).
Higher thinking is done in the Cerebral cortex. Humans are magicians with tools, so are apes.Otters are masters in smashing mollusks in to get meat inside it. Crows indeed are better tool users than anybody. They can bend a wire to create a hook so they can fish a basket of food from the bottom of a plastic tube. Rooks, another member of the crow family, have shown us that if stones are thrown in a pitcher with shallow water that water can be drunk easily. This reminds us of that story by Aesop. Dogs understand what pointing means.Blue Jays,  another member of the crow family, treasure their food until the other animals are gone. If you tie a bracelet around an Orang-utan's hand  and put him in front of the mirror it puts the bracelet on it's face. It can make out it's own reflection. Elephants can understand if another elephant is dead or alive by touching their skull. If they are dead they mourn the death. When rats are in pain and wriggle, the other rats that watch the scene also wriggle like them. So in simple words animals also have brain, intelligence and feelings.