Animal Intelligence quiz

More questions about Animal Intelligence

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1. 1 Easy

   Which insect showed it grasps the number zero in 2018?

   Answer: Honeybee

   Why: With a brain of only about a million neurons, the bees still ranked an empty display below a single item.

2. 2 Medium

   Why do crows gather around a dead crow, per a 2015 study?

   Answer: Learning about danger

   Why: Crows were slower to feed where they had seen a person holding a dead crow, but a dead pigeon had no such effect.

3. 3 Hard

   Whose paintings did pigeons learn to tell from Picasso's in 1995?

   Answer: Monet

   Why: Even paintings by the two artists that the pigeons had never seen were sorted correctly.

4. 4 Easy

   What do meerkats remove from scorpions they give their pups?

   Answer: The sting

   Why: Helpers give the youngest pups dead scorpions, older pups disabled live ones, and finally intact prey.

5. 5 Medium

   How did Kanzi the bonobo mainly 'talk' with researchers?

   Answer: Symbol keyboard

   Why: Kanzi picked up the symbols while tagging along to lessons meant for his adoptive mother, Matata.

6. 6 Hard

   What part of an African elephant's brain holds almost all its neurons?

   Answer: Cerebellum

   Why: An elephant's cortex holds only about 5.6 billion neurons, roughly a third of the number in a human cortex.