People ignore information about the intelligence of animals when an animal is already used as food in one's culture.
Research shows that people opportunistically assign intelligence to animals; Westerners, for example, consider familiar food animals such as cows to be mentally inferior to those, like dolphins, horses, cats, and dogs, which we don't typically eat.
The horse caused a sensation, and many took his prowess as proof that the intelligence of animals had been woefully underestimated.
In different ways, both made the novel argument that the evolutionary pressures fostering intelligence in animals were not the primal demands of subsistence but the more abstract ones of living within a complex social hierarchy.
The revealed intelligence of animals is one of the great running stories of our time.
Despite recent claims of advanced intelligence in animals, researchers still debate how to test whether their abilities reflect humanlike cognition.
These trails would lead to water, reveal migration patterns, and they would always be the result of a natural intelligence - animals and pre-humans in the struggle to survive.
Therefore, Long was not the first to write of the learned intelligence of animals.
And nothing demonstrates the fallibility of science more than its stubborn, persistent refusal to acknowledge the intelligence of animals.
Filmmaker Richard Fleming is producing a short film adaptation of Stephen King's short story, Popsy, which challenges the audience's perception of the emotional intelligence of animals by depicting humans as a kind of livestock, and showing the impact of meat consumption as a luxury rather than sustenance.
Recognize the wisdom and intelligence of animals.
