>>11935163>According to HwStuffWorksOpinion discarded
>1. Chimps (frugivore)Chimps are omnivores, not frugivores. They eat meat occassionally such as insects or bushmeat. Even cannibalism has been observed among chimps.
>3. Orangutan (frugivore)Omnivores, like chimps
>5. Crow (omnivore)Crows have been observed since time immemorial eating human remains after battles. Hence, why we associate them with death.
>6. Pig (omnivore)>7. Squirrel (herbivore)>8. Pigeon (herbivore)>10. Rat (herbivore)Not nearly as smart as the animals I listed.
My list (
>>11935082) is based on current science comes from a combination of:
1. Brain to body mass ratio (all above average)
2. Ability to pass the mirror test (passed by corvids, crows, dolphins, octopus, elephants, chimps, apes)
3. Observed tool use (observed in chimps, great apes, corvids, blue jays, dolphins, elephants, not in octopus)
4. Complex behaviours showing a more evolved theory of mind such as such as teaching their young (dolphins, chimpanzees, blue jays), mourning the dead (blue jays, dolphins, chimpanzees, elephants), or recreation (playing) without a survival purpose (such as dolphins playing with bubbles or having recreational sex)
A single of these criteria doesn't define intelligence but the combination of them paints a pretty full picture.
>According to the meat eating = brain mass theory, we should see lions, tigers, etc at the top.There is no such theory. There is no unified theory of evolution. There is no goal to evolution. Evolution is driven by random mutations.
If you are talking about observed trends, intelligence seems to favor omnivores that eat meat, but there's always a dolphin (carnivore) or elephants (herbivore) breaking such easy categorizations.
>The smartest animal on the planet mainly eats fruit.That's us.
>No correlation, totally debunked.You are the one claiming a correlation.
