Aye.LizardKing said:Weren't pigs classed as more intelligent than the average animal as well?
Aye.LizardKing said:Weren't pigs classed as more intelligent than the average animal as well?
I think that's a breed of penguin, I think it's a type that uses prostitution for rocks so they can build a nest.TheCrow said:aren't dolphins also the only other animal that has sex for fun like us?
Dolphins are sentient but I don't think that is what you mean, sentience is the ability to perceive which all animals on some level can do. Dolphins show cognition, the ability to perceive, represent, reason, learn and act. It can be debated that they are concious too.iCraig said:Dolphins are sentient like us aren't they?
Meaning they are self-aware, they know who and what they are. Amazing.
I vaguely remember hearing lions have sex for fun aswell.TheCrow said:aren't dolphins also the only other animal that has sex for fun like us? Good on them if my information is correct.
big_white_dog84 said:Try telling my gf that.
Amp34 said:Pretty much all animals are sentient beings, it's just people don't seem to like the idea that humans are just animals. Be it slightly more intelligent and able with the opposable thumb than the average animal..
Google said:Self-aware, choice-making consciousness. Humans and cetaceans (dolphins and whales) are the two sentient species on earth.
Eriedor said:It can be debated that they are concious too.
They've also evolved an elaborate courtship ritual, which consists of... um, the male sitting there with his legs open and showing his erection. If only it were that simple for us.D.P. said:Bonobo chimps do as well, and lots of male-male and female-female intercourse as well. They also use sex as a social tool to manipulate others
Until the trainers realised what the dolphin was doing, it had effectively outwitted them. The trainers thought that they had trained the dolphin to clear up litter from its pool. In actuality, the dolphin had trained the trainers to keep bringing it fish, without having to clear up any litter.AcidHell2 said:it hasn't outwitted us has it.
it just knows it will receive food if it brings litter. And we still supply it becuase where amazed by it's ingenuity. It's quite easy for the trainers to tell if it's a new piece of rubbish or a tear off.
iCraig said:It depends on the context used I think, sentience can mean an advanced level of conciousness, where you can ponder your own existence, but also where you simply have senses. A cat is sentient but it doesn't have sentience, if that makes sense?
iCraig said:I think there's little doubt.
Take a read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/jul/03/research.science