Turkeys don't just make scrumptious Thanksgiving meals, but also make for less intelligent or more appropriately, confused animals. Turkeys, we reckon, are a bunch of existentialists, forever cogitating ways to confuse people with highly complex cant, or else why on earth would they stare at the sky for 30 seconds, even when it is raining?
Remember though, that this goofy and aimless behavior of turkeys can be ascribed to this condition called tetanic torticollar spasms that is believed to be hereditary.
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Not just that, they have monocular vision, which is kind of a cool thing because it means that they can see George Clooney from one eye and Brad Pitt from the other this is so helpful when two good-looking people are standing meters away from each other and you don't know whom to look at, but with the turkey's eyes, you can see them both!
These creatures have inspired a whole generation of shiftless, good-for-nothing sleeping beauties. That appearance itself is a good suggestion about their less bright bulbs.
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You won't be surprised if we told you they act dopey like forever and once in every week come down to release contents from their bowels. Baby sloths are very klutzy as they are most likely to mistake their own arms for branches and in a bid to grab them, they fall. Now that is something. We envy this lifestyle. When winters approach, squirrels become insane and go about stockpiling acorns, and stash them into different places so that they can snack on them later.
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However, their real smartness is revealed when they run around like headless chickens trying to remember the places where it hid the acorns. Just when I was talking about my grandfather's failing memory that makes him do things like rummaging the whole house for his glasses when they are perched on his shiny head and et al, I was totally astonished to find that squirrels too have a sieve-like memory.
Squirrels, I thought were like these smart-ass sleuths that did their work furtively a la ninja style. But this belief alas, turned out to be a fallacy. Well, let's just say ostriches make an astounding aberration by having over-sized eyes and under-sized brains. Going by the size of their brains, we felt compelled to have them in our list.
Ostriches don't come with looks that can make Megan Fox go weak in her knees neither do their dancing in backward circles is appealing enough to impress Len Goodman. We think this pretty much says everything about them.
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For a very long time experiments seemed to show that non-human primates were selfish. Monkeys were allowed to either take food or push food to a companion. Monkeys would more often take food for themselves suggesting general selfishness.
In a recent study monkeys learnt that two different types of tokens would exchange for food: This set-up proved successful. Monkeys preferred tokens that rewarded both individuals. These are two simple examples among many where animals seemed void of a certain type of intelligence. But in reality they only failed solving a task the way we expected a human would.
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Negative findings tell us only so much. Squirrels fake hiding seeds when they know others are watching. Crows can construct hooks out of wire to use as tools. Chimpanzees have better short-term memories than humans. Bumblebees can solve some problems faster than computers. Rats feel empathy for their species companions. Honey bees can recognise faces. And Caenorhabditis elegans , a worm with only brain cells, can learn and remember.
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For some, hearing that animals are intelligent is enthralling. But for many, losing their exclusivity on intelligence is discomforting. Even harder to take for some is that humans may not be as smart as we once thought. More and more research is showing that the seemingly complicated logic and intellect we routinely use to solve problems relies heavily on short cuts known as heuristics.
Put simply, this comes very close to what we consider instincts.