A number of whale species are just are social and intelligent as dolphins. But being very large it becomes very difficult task to train whales. At same time the social behavior, communication techniques and imitation power shows by whales make them as one of the most intelligent animals.
- Sperms whales have the largest brain than any other all living things.
- Cognitive abilities through the presence of spindle cells within the brain.
- Whales communicate each other by producing complex vocal tones and can use this communication to work together to gather food.
- They are extremely social, travel and hunt in groups.
- The beluga whales shows the ability to mimics human speech.
Although their famous ability to talk is pure mimicry as most people know parrots have excellent memories and like many others on this list are capable of solving relatively complex problems. They are said to be the most intelligent bird because of there good problem solving skills.
3. Elephants
Compared to other animals, elephants have larger brains. Of course just because your brain is big doesn’t necessarily mean much. What matters is the proportion of body mass to brain mass but even with that said elephants are really, really smart by non human standards. These animals use their brains to create and process complex social interactions and seem to even model things such as empathy.
2. Bottlenose dolphins
When it comes to body mass to brain ratio, it is a scientific fact that Bottlenose dolphins have among the largest brains in the animal kingdom. Characterized by their advanced communication skills, they have also been considered to be self aware with the ability to recognize themselves in a mirror and known to call eachother by their own unique names.
1. Great Apes
Apes are the second most intelligent living organism in the world after humans. According to many scientific theories humans were evolved from the apes family. Apes follow extreme social life and express different types of emotions. The family of apes include chimpanzees, orang-utans, gorillas and bonobos.
- Great communication power.
- Ability to learn from surroundings.
- Make their own home. Also use different tools for finding food.
- DNA of apes show they are 97% alike to humans DNA which suggests we ourselves are very much like them.
- Apes can understand individuality and can learns words, even human language.
- Defends enemies by using tools like humans around 100,000 years ago. The only question now is , is why apes are not as intellectually capable as humans and since they are not now, will they ever evolve to be like us?