At all similarity of the person and an animal, nevertheless between them there is a cardinal difference - it is a way of perception of the world around. In an arsenal of animals only the first alarm system, i.e. they, perceive the world by means of reflexes and reactions to irritants. The person owns also the second alarm system – language. In other words, if for achievement of result the animal uses a method of "tests and mistakes", the person achieves any result by means of language and the related thinking.
Whether pets are clever?Owners of cats, dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs, horses and other pets quite often allocate the favourites with extraordinary mental capacities. But whether so it actually? "No", - scientists unanimously say. Even if it seems to you that the cat understands what you speak about. Animals are not capable to perceive information which is born by any given word. They only perceive its emotional coloring and an accent. Therefore not words, but a combination of sounds are important for an animal.
For the same reason, your dog can watch TV – she is attracted by a combination of sounds and she just begins to watch an external irritant.
"And how those cases when the animal feels a disease of the owner?", - you ask. In this case too everything is explainable – with a disease of the owner the mode, habitual for an animal, is broken, for example, the schedule of feeding and, naturally, the animal tries to find out the reason.
Owning only tactile and oral means of communication, it also comes into contact with the owner to find out the reason of why he was not fed in time.
The owner for the pet is only something meaning a being who is perceived by him as a part of. To this phenomenon of people it is obliged in cases of wonderful rescue or a danger warning. Because in this case, the animal saves not the owner, and itself. Here so "cruelly" scientists dispelled stereotypes and myths about darlings Barsikakh and Mukhtarakh. But unless from it they became less darlings!?Whether
is sillier than sillyLogically the question arises: if animals are not so clever, so among them there has to be the silliest? Yes, is! The silliest animals are hippopotamuses. At the beginning of the 20th century, the scientist from Zoological institute (Switzerland) A. Portman developed a scale of intellectual opportunities of animals, and on it on the first place there were dolphins, and on the last - a hippopotamus. According to the researches conducted by the scientist, this animal gained only 18 points in a rationality scale. However, despite such low results, this animal than does not give the lack of mind. They adapted to existence by groups and even learned to be protected from the scorching sun. It is good that the hippopotamus in itself does not guess that he is considered the silliest animal in the world, and quite happily lives, inspiring fear in the king of beasts - a lion and the prince of Africa - a crocodile.