Scientists have done lot of research and have come to a conclusion that the smartness in animal is measured three aspects such as emotions, self recognition and language. When the first aspect, which is emotion, is considered, it has been found that chimpanzees tend react to emotions in a correct manner. It is quite obvious that chimpanzees react to emotions because they have genes that resemble human genes, and this resemblance is up to 98 percent.
When self recognition is considered, one would notice that animals are not good at it. A sparrow has been noticed quite often pecking at its own picture in a mirror for many hours. However, a study by Gordon Gallup Jr carried out in the year 1970 proved that there are animals which can pass the self recognition test. The smartest among them were chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, bottlenose dolphin, orcas, elephants, European magpies and even pigs. Among all other mammals, dolphins were the only ones which could recognize themselves.
The next aspect about smartness is the language. Almost all animals have the ability to speak, but the ability to communicate is generally missing in most of them. However, studies have shown a fact that prairie Dogs are able to communicate impending danger to one another. The language that they speak includes chirps that signify around one hundred different words. Their words also include adjectives and verbs.
After considering all these three aspects about smartness and various researches, there are ten smart animals in the planet. These are the dirty pigs, crows, rats, African grey parrot, elephants, octopus, bottlenose dolphins, pigeons and Portia Labiata jumping spider and squirrel.
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