in the near future, animals would take over the earth and rule the world and for some of us especially the poachers they will be locked in zoo and fed only once in a day.......am just joking guys but let's talk about the smartest animals , those special animals who are actually smart and would give any prey or predator a good fight.

10. THE SQUIRREL

they are fast,annoying and cute and also can be used for any variety of soup you can think of but more than that anyone who has ever seen a squirrel dart across a crowded street or road has wondered if it is aware of the danger. It turns out a squirrel may be but if there is food on the opposite end of the street, it may not matter.

Squirrels are fast learners according to a study from the University of Exeter, and they learn from their peers, especially when stealing food is involved. Furthermore, while squirrels are known to bury food in the fall in preparation for winter, they will sometimes only pretend to bury it to trick on looking animals, preventing them from identifying the real location of their food supply, the real trickster if i should say.

9. BEES


Yes they produce honey and they sting as hell but Bees exhibit what experts call classic swarm intelligence. A single bee may not be smart in the classical sense, but a hive of bees can and have proven to be. If a group of bees needs to find a new nest, they work together to collect information and share their findings, ultimately voting on which location would best serve as their new home and when they disagree? It turns out that they can hold a democratic "dance-off" to make a hive decision.

its all jams and no war for these guys, imagine a world where we just have to dance to settle our differences , amazing huh?

8. COWS


am a bit confused myself lemme check .......confirmed!, its a cow that takes our number 8 spot but maybe not our Nigeria cows.
Cows may seem like placid animals merely concerned with chewing their cud, but as it turns out, they possess a rich and complex emotional life. They experience emotions like fear and anxiety and also have excellent memories. Cows even develop their own social circles, becoming friends with the cows that treated them nicely and avoiding those that didn't.

One scientific study also revealed that when cows were rewarded for improving at a task, they were more excited than when they were given a treat regardless, indicating that cows are aware of their own learning improvement.

7. THE ELEPHANT

they are heavy, fat, massive and....they are extremely clever.

of course we are talking about the elephants, you see elephants have a reputation for smarts. They have been observed using tools such as sticks to pick at ticks and palm fronds to swat at flies. They also have an excellent memory, hence the saying "elephants never forget." Elephants can recognize members of their herd even after being separated from them for years and can remember the locations of old water sources if their current home experiences a drought. However, their intelligence may sometimes put them at odds with their human neighbors. As the Nature Institute points out, some farmers equip elephants with wooden bells to alert them if the animals have entered their banana groves, but young elephants have been observed stuffing their bells with mud so that the clappers cannot ring, allowing them to eat entire banana trees unnoticed, imagine that sort of smarts!

6. DUCKS


Ducklings are known to imprint on their mothers, but how much does this reveal about their cognitive abilities? To find out, scientists at the University of Oxford studied how the ducklings managed to differentiate between imprinted beings and non-imprinted. They put ducklings in an enclosure and trailed two different pairs of objects around on strings, one pair of matching shapes (like two spheres) and one pair of non-matching shapes (like a cylinder and a cube). After the ducklings showed a tendency towards one of the sets, the researchers put the ducklings in a different enclosure with different matching and non-matching pairs.

The ducklings would follow after whichever set best resembled their original imprint. So, if they followed the two spheres in the first enclosure, they would follow a set of matching cubes in the second enclosure. The researchers explained that this tendency has only been seen in primates, crows, and parrots before, indicating that ducks may be smarter than originally thought

5. THE BONOBOS


The bonobo is a close cousin to the common chimpanzee, another famously intelligent animal. Extremely endangered, the bonobo is found only in central Africa. Like other great apes, bonobos can learn how to use sign language and symbols. After researchers taught a bonobo named Kanzi how to communicate with lexigrams on a keyboard, the ape taught himself some basic sign language just by watching videos of Koko the Gorilla. Furthermore, Kanzi can cook his own food and even outperformed a human toddler during a study of cognitive ability when he was only eight years old, You heard it right.

4. PIGS


The real hustlers i would say,Pigs may be the smartest domestic animals in the world. Researchers have found that domestic pigs can use mirrors to find their food and will try to deceive other pigs so that they can "hog" more food. Pigs also learn quickly and can do tricks ranging from jumping through hoops to playing video games with joysticks.

3. RATS


Perceived as carriers of disease, rats have earned a bad reputation i almost killed one yesterday self, but they are highly intelligent creatures. Pet rats ( definitely not here in africa) can be trained just like dogs and can learn how to fetch or roll over. Their ability to solve problems has also been documented by numerous scientific studies, such as those in which rats found their way through mazes with the reward of food. However, certain rats are better at solving mazes than others, implying that there is a range of intelligence among the rodents.

2. THE DOLPHINS


I know most of us have been waiting for these guys to make an entrance at our number one but surprisingly the dolphin ranks second.

Dolphins are well-documented as intelligent animals. They can recognize themselves in a mirror and communicate with each other. Their large brain is structured for awareness and emotion, and dolphin brains are even more structurally complex than those of humans. According to Emory University dolphin expert Lori Marino, dolphins have larger brains than any other animal relative to the size of their bodies. Only humans have brains that are bigger

1. THE RAVENS




Not the one eyed raven please (G.O.T) just the actual birds who are extremely smart in fact They are also extremely resourceful animals that have been known to multi-task.

Researchers from Canada and Scotland have shown that ravens use complex and precise logic to understand their surroundings in a way that may surpass the ability of the great apes. When presented with food that could only be attained by completing a series of complicated tasks, the ravens figured out how to reach the treats on their own without assistance from the researchers.


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Really nice compilation... Kudos @Op

Nigeria rst

What's about tortoise? animal all the story I've hearing about tortoise smartness nah false ne

Dogs

Why is Buhari not on this list??

Herbephe1:
What's about tortoise? animal all the story I've hearing about tortoise smartness nah ;Dfalse ne

na so we see am oh

Dbrainiac1:
Dogs

even hyenas are proven to be extremely smart as well but these are not just smart animals , the top ten picks the smartest ten definitely dogs might go in for a top 15 of course

WriterX:
1. THE RAVENS




Not the one eyed raven please (G.O.T) just the actual birds who are extremely smart in fact They are also extremely resourceful animals that have been known to multi-task.

Researchers from Canada and Scotland have shown that ravens use complex and precise logic to understand their surroundings in a way that may surpass the ability of the great apes. When presented with food that could only be attained by completing a series of complicated tasks, the ravens figured out how to reach the treats on their own without assistance from the researchers.


WATCH OUT FOR OUR NEXT TOP TEN.

Raven is clevest that's why it was used in G.O.T

eddyghali:

Raven is clevest that's why it was used in G.O.T

i realized its significance soon after i published this. good one.

Cows ke? is it all these ones aboki dey control? most definitely not.

The fearless honey badgers, monkeys, dogs,. didn't make the list, meaning it was compiled in Abuja by Buhari.

Add snakes so it will make front-page

But seriously snake should be on the list ... only God knows how it convinced Eve to disobey her creator

ClassicMan202:
Why is Buhari not on this list??

Check No.8

So all the childhood fables I was told about how tortoise was the smartest amongst them all are lies...

Dogs are not smart. They are more of wild animals in the family of wolves and hyenas. Humans are just the ones forcing themselves on dogs. If you read a similar thread about most dangerous animals in the world, you will see dogs topping that list. The earlier we realise this and let them roam the wilds as the wild animals that they are, the better for humankind

Dbrainiac1:
Dogs

wonder233:
Dogs are not smart. They are more of wild animals in the family of wolves and hyenas. Humans are just the ones forcing themselves on dogs. If you read a similar thread about most dangerous animals in the world, you will see dogs topping that list. The earlier we realise this and let them roam the wilds as the wild animals that they are, the better for humankind

You're talking in the rubbish. I've seen dogs that drive cars. Alaye, dogs are not wild animals.

What about rabbits

he is being represented by the COW

ClassicMan202:
Why is Buhari not on this list??

am so disappointed, i was expecting to see the likes of giraffe, ostrich, zebras on the list and not pigs (elede), rats aka ekule. and cow (malu)

11. ..Parrot