that’s a bad assumption that primates are the second most intelligent animal. i am personally convinced that dolphins, in particular orcas, a much smarter than

that’s a bad assumption that primates are the second most intelligent animal. i am personally convinced that dolphins, in particular orcas, a much smarter than any primate species. orcas are almost always left out of intelligence of animals discussions, but they have a very refined intelligence that doesn’t require leaps of faith to say, woah, that is very high level cognition going on. at least the article includes this quote: > Ranking the intelligence of animals seems an increasingly pointless exercise when one considers the really important thing: how well that animal is adapted to its niche