![]() ![]() How many other creatures that scientists try and test also feel they have no reason to respond? And yes there is food, but not hungry right now, thank you very much. We all know that cats can understand a fair number of words, but unlike dogs eager to please their owners, cats thinking we should be eager to please them, see no reason to respond to tests if they don't feel like it. I read yesterday that cats not only know their names but the names that people call their fellow cats by and "may" know the names of their owners. There is also personality to take into account. ![]() Why are we measuring their intelligence by how they problem-solve human-set experiments in a world that, apart from primates, probably looks (feels, sounds, smells) quite different to them. They do not even see the world the same way as each other. ![]() Since there are many more senses than the ones humans have, animals with differing ones do not see the world as we do. When scientists measure animal intelligence, or when we do with our pets, what we are really doing is measuring their ability to figure out our world. We are not only not smart enough to know how smart animals are, we lack the sensory equipment to ever be able to measure it. ![]()
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