> Is a crow really the most intelligent animal?

Is a crow really the most intelligent animal?

Posted at: 2014-11-15 
One of the measures of intelligence is self-awareness, and most animals on the planet are not self-aware.

A simple method to test if an animal is self-aware is to see if the animal recognizes itself in a mirror. Crows are not self-aware (though interestingly enough, magpies are), therefore it's probably safe to conclude they're not the most intelligent animal.

Of course not. Ravens, the crow's larger cousins, are more intelligent than crows. Crows are among some of the most intelligent birds, along with parrots, and other corvids (jays, magpies, crows and ravens) but the bottlenosed dolphin takes the honor as the most intelligent non-human animal. The bottlenosed dolphin has the largest brain of any animal that has a similar body size, higher even than chimpanzees, orangutans, and the capuchin monkey.

If you meant non-human animal, then probably not. Octopuses (according to my spellchecker, this is apparently a correct spelling, though I like the sound of Octopi better, even if it's wrong) are fairly smart, to the point of being problem-solvers.

However, since humans are, by definition, animals, then I'd argue that we're the smartest.

Crows are really smart, but the most intelligent would be our close family, apes, monkeys, gorillas ect.

No. . the Chimpanzees are the most intelligent one.

yes, no fooling a crow, and ducks too might be holding something back they are not telling

they certainly are intelligent, for they are the only birds besides ravens who can make tools to their advantage

I thought it's the owl?

No. All life is of equal intelligence.