In “Extreme Perception and Animal Intelligence”, authors Temple Grandin

and Catherin Johnson discuss what is considered intelligence in animals.

The authors say there are animals that use their cognition to create jobs
for themselves. Seizure alert dogs are a good example of animals that use
their perceptual abilities to solve a situation without human help.
Grandin and Johnson write that there are some animals that can learn
things for themselves. That is the case of Clever Hans, the horse that
trained himself to see the little movements that people do when asking a
question. This situation created a debate between people that believed
and people that didn’t believe in the intelligence of the horse.
The author mention the similarities that some animals have at the
moment of developing skills without human help. Seizure alert dogs and
Clever Hans are animals that acquired abilities that other animals can’t
and they did it for themselves. According to the authors, that behavior
shows superior intelligence.
The authors conclude saying that intelligence is the capacity of recognizing
a problem and do something about it. Also, they say that true cognition is
using skills to achieve useful goals like the seizure alert dogs and Clever
Hans did.
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